Social Security Benefits

(asked on 1st June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the value of additional support that households subject to the benefit cap at the start of February 2020 have been unable to receive.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 4th June 2020

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost. Claimants can approach their Local Authority for a Discretionary Housing Payment if they need additional support to meet rental costs.

There is already £180m in Discretionary Housing Payments for local authorities to distribute for supporting renters with housing costs in the private and social rented sectors in 2020/21. This includes an additional £40m to tackle affordability pressures in the private rented sector.

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