Question follow-through · 5481
Housing Benefit: Supported Housing and Temporary Accommodation
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of tapering the reduction of housing support when people living in (a) temporary and (b) supported accommodation move off income-related benefits a
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 10 Oct 2024 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of tapering the reduction of housing support when people living in (a) temporary and (b) supported accommodation move off income-related benefits a
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Oct 2024
Answer published
The income taper in Housing Benefit ensures people in work are better off than someone wholly reliant on benefits. In addition to any financial advantage, there are important non-financial benefits of working. These benefits include learning new skills, i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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