Housing Benefit
(asked on 29th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will carry out an impact assessment on the restrictions to backdating housing benefit introduced in April 2016 for working-age claimants.
This question was answered on 18th April 2017
Qualitative research into the limiting of backdating with Local Authority Housing Benefit Managers has been undertaken. This was published in January 2017.
The full report is available here https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/584664/local-authority-insight-research-wave-32.pdf
A quantitative survey is planned and the findings will be published in due course.