Question follow-through · 74415
Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on aligning the Housing Benefit taper rate with the Universal Credit taper rate for young people in supported accommodation
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 2 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on aligning the Housing Benefit taper rate with the Universal Credit taper rate for young people in supported accommodation
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2025
Answer published
The department does not routinely collect management information on reports of customers limiting working hours or turning down employment opportunities but we do have anecdotal evidence of this occurring. This is why it remains the department’s priority ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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