Housing Benefit: Social Rented Housing

(asked on 12th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will bring forward proposals to amend Regulation B13 of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 to create an exemption for people who live in Sanctuary Schemes after the decision of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in A v the United Kingdom.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 17th March 2020

We are carefully considering next steps in response to the European Court of Human Rights decision.

In the meantime, for people in particular circumstances who may require more support, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available.

Since 2011 we have provided over £1billion in DHP funding, enabling local authorities to protect the most vulnerable claimants and supporting households to adapt to housing support reforms, including the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy policy. In addition, we recently announced an extra £40 million in DHPs for 2020/21.

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