Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 68072

Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

Tabled: 15 July 2025
Answered: 22 July 2025

Question

Steve Race

LabourExeter

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of increasing the Housing Benefits disregard from £5 to £57 for people in supported housing.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
The Department acknowledges there is a challenge presented by the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit for those living in Supported and Temporary Accommodation and receiving their housing support through Housing Benefit. The departmen...

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