Social Security Benefits: Private Rented Housing
(asked on 10th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of the private rented sector is affordable to those on Housing Benefit or Universal Credit.
This question was answered on 17th October 2017
This information is not available. Affordability is dependent on many factors, for example rent levels in the area the claimant lives, the size of their household and other sources of income they may receive in addition to their housing benefit or universal credit entitlement.