Housing Benefit: Supported Housing

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Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Tabled

30 Oct 2025

Target answer date

3 Nov 2025

Answer

5 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

1. 30 Oct 2025

   Question tabled

   To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with HM Treasury on changing the housing benefit taper rate for individuals living in supported accommodation.

2. 3 Nov 2025

   Target answer date

   Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

3. 5 Nov 2025

   Answer published

   It remains the department’s priority to ensure that those who can work are supported to enter the labour market and to sustain employment. We acknowledge there is a challenge arising from the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit, parti...

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.