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Percentage of Government allocation for Discretionary Housing Payments spent (18567) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the percentage of Government allocation for Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) spent for a local authority. DHPs can be paid to those entitled to Housing Benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit who face a shortfall in meeting their housing costs. To be considered for a DHP, a claimant applies to their local authority. The local authority decides whether to give a DHP, how much will be paid and for how long the claimant will receive the payment. A DHP might cover a rent shortfall, a rent deposit for a claimant that needs to move home, or another housing cost.
An authority might spend less than their allocation of funding, or they might spend more by contributing their own funding (up to a spending limit of two-and-a-half times their allocation). Since local authorities are encouraged to manage their DHP budget, the level of DHP spending does not necessarily reflect the level of demand for DHPs.
Caution should be taken when comparing periods affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The submission of DHP data is voluntary and as a result it may not be possible this data is missing.
- Modified
- 17 Jan 2024
- Data last updated
- 05 Apr 2024
- Short label
- % of Government allocation for DHPs spent
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Percentage
- Dataset
- Use of Discretionary Housing Payments
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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