Question follow-through · 77801
Housing Benefit: Supported Housing
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the Housing Benefit taper rate from 65 per cent to 55 per cent on young people living in supported accommodation.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 15 Oct 2025 · 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
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of reducing the Housing Benefit taper rate from 65 per cent to 55 per cent on young people living in supported accommodation.
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Oct 2025
Answer published
We acknowledge there is a challenge arising from the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit, particularly for young people living in supported and temporary accommodation, including the different income tapers used by each benefit. Curre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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