Housing Benefit: Wales

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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.


Answered by
 Portrait
Steve Webb
This question was answered on 12th June 2014

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

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