Child Tax Credit: Housing Benefit

(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of households in receipt of housing benefit who were also in receipt of childcare tax credits in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Caroline Dinenage Portrait
Caroline Dinenage
This question was answered on 14th December 2017

The requested information is shown in the table below:

Claimants receiving both Housing Benefit and the Childcare Element of Tax Credits - 31st August 2015, 2016 and 2017

Thousands

August 2015

90

August 2016

90

August 2017

100

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