Housing Benefit: Wales
(asked on )
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many local authorities in Wales applied for additional financial assistance to cover discretionary housing payments in 2013-14; and what assistance such local authorities received.
The three local authorities in Wales that applied for additional Discretionary Housing Payments from the additional £20 million reserve fund provided by the Government are detailed on the table below:
Local Authority | Amount Awarded |
Caerphilly | £63,000 |
Cardiff | £150,000 |
Conwy | £25,000 |
This information was published on 24 March 2014 in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) subsidy circular S3/2014. Please find attached a link where the information can be found.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/295291/s3-2014.pdf