Question follow-through · 90148
Housing Benefit
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2025 Question 76922 on Housing Benefit: Supported Housing, what further discussions he has had with stakeholders on proposals to decrease the Housing Benefit taper
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 12 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 22 September 2025 Question 76922 on Housing Benefit: Supported Housing, what further discussions he has had with stakeholders on proposals to decrease the Housing Benefit taper
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
We acknowledge there is a challenge arising from the interaction between Universal Credit and Housing Benefit, particularly for working age customers living in Supported Housing and Temporary Accommodation. A wide range of customers currently receive rent...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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