Housing Benefit: Tower Hamlets
(asked on 21st January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Freud on 8 December 2015 (HL3997), what has been identified as the cause of the overpayment of housing benefit to those claimants migrated onto Universal Credit, and how many claimants in Tower Hamlets have been affected.
This question was answered on 27th January 2016
We have safeguards in place to ensure an effective transition and avoid impacts on overlapping benefits.