Housing: Underoccupancy Charge Debate
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Lord Greaves
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Housing: Underoccupancy Charge
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Tuesday 14th January 2014
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Lord Freud
The reductions in housing benefit will of course be repaid as we correct the anomaly for this period, so people will be made whole.
Lord Greaves (LD)
My Lords, when the repayments have to be made by local authorities, will they be reimbursed by central government, since it is clearly not the fault of local authorities that this cock-up has occurred?
Lord Freud
Yes, my Lords, the payment will of course go through as housing payment in the normal way.