Local Housing Allowance
(asked on 13th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 26 May 2022 to Question 6683 on Local Housing Allowance, what the source is of the data being collected on the proportion of private rented sector tenants facing a shortfall between the rent they owe their landlord and the Local Housing Allowance they are eligible to receive.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 16th June 2022
Data on rents and how they relate to the Local Housing Allowance are collected via the Single Housing Benefit Extract and Universal Credit administrative systems.