Question follow-through · 75680
Housing Benefit: Earnings Rules
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has assessed the potential impact of raising the Housing Benefit earnings disregard for people in supported accommodation on employment rates.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department has assessed the potential impact of raising the Housing Benefit earnings disregard for people in supported accommodation on employment rates.
10 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Sept 2025
Answer published
We acknowledge there is a challenge arising from the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit for those living in supported and temporary accommodation. We are considering options to improve work incentives for residents of supported and t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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