Question follow-through · 7923
Housing Benefit: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will (a) lower the Housing Benefit taper rate and (b) increase the applicable amount to help young homeless people into work.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will (a) lower the Housing Benefit taper rate and (b) increase the applicable amount to help young homeless people into work.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
People in receipt of Housing Benefit are always better off in work 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, improved...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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