Housing: Pensioners

(asked on 24th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what recent assessment he has made of the cost of living pressures on the ability of people of pensionable age being able to continue living in their current accommodation.


Answered by
Stuart Andrew Portrait
Stuart Andrew
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 3rd March 2022

The Government is taking action to help people, including Pensioners, with cost of living pressures. The Chancellor's announcement on 3 February of a package of support to help households with rising energy bills, worth £9.1 billion in 2022-23, will also be available to eligible pensioners.

Individuals in who are unable to afford their rental payments may be eligible for a range of support through the Universal Credit system. In April 2020, we boosted investment in the Local Housing Allowance by nearly £1 billion.

For those who need it most, support is available through Discretionary Housing Payments, the additional £65 million funding for renters in arrears, and the £500 million Household Support Fund, of which £421 million will go to help vulnerable people in England with the cost of essentials over the winter period.

On the wider issue of older people's housing, we are committed to ensuring that older people can live in the right kind of homes that suit their needs, in the places they want to live. A new government taskforce, as announced in the Levelling Up White Paper, will look at ways we can provide greater choice, quality and security of housing for older people.

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