Question follow-through · 9257
Housing Benefit and Universal Credit: Landlords
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the verification of the accuracy of service costs covered by both Housing Benefit and Universal Credit when paid directly to a landlord.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 11 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Local Housing Allowance: Dewsbury and Batley · 28 Aug 2026
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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
11 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the verification of the accuracy of service costs covered by both Housing Benefit and Universal Credit when paid directly to a landlord.
15 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jun 2026
Answer published
Housing costs support is available in Housing Benefit or Universal Credit to those who have a liability to pay rent and eligible service charges for the home they live in. The verification process is designed to establish the costs that the claimant has a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Local Housing Allowance: Dewsbury and Batley
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of levels of Local Housing Allowance on a) poverty b) homelessness among Universal Credit claimants in Dewsbury and Batley.