Local Housing Allowance: Refuges
(asked on 8th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that the housing benefit cap does not have an adverse financial effect on refuges for domestic violence survivors; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 13th September 2016
All tenants in supported accommodation are exempted from the Local Housing Allowance cap until April 2017.
The Secretary of State has confirmed that the Government expects to make an announcement on the way forward for supported housing in early autumn.