Local Housing Allowance
(asked on 17th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make it her policy to raise Local Housing Allowance in line with rent rates.
This question was answered on 23rd May 2022
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates for 2022/23 will be maintained at the elevated cash rates agreed for 2020/21 ensuring that claimants who benefitted from the increased levels of housing support continue to do so.
The Secretary of State will review LHA rates annually in the usual way.
For those who require additional support with housing costs, Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) are available. Since 2011 we have provided nearly £1.5 billion in funding for DHPs.