Question follow-through · 73863
Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Housing Benefit earnings disregard from £5 to £57.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 4 Sept 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Local Housing Allowance: Wales · 26 Nov 2025
- Housing Benefit: Wales · 22 Apr 2026
- Housing Benefit: Supported Housing · 23 Apr 2026
- Local Housing Allowance: Uprating · 13 Jul 2026
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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
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Housing Benefit earnings disregard from £5 to £57.
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Department acknowledges there is a challenge presented by the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit for those residing in Supported and Temporary Accommodation and receiving their housing support through Housing Benefit. The departm...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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