Impact of Changes to Local Housing Allowance from 2011

The Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) has carried out an Equality Impact Assessment on the effects of the recent changes to Local Housing Allowance. The Impacts of Housing Benefit proposals: Changes to the Local Housing Allowance to be introduced in 2011-12 is produced in three parts. The first shows the impact compared to now of the Local Housing Allowance measures that the previous administration had decided to implement:
* removing the £15 excess, and
* taking out the top one per cent of rents at a national level from the market evidence database.
The second shows the impact compared to now of the measures which are being introduced in 2011/12. And the third part considers the additional impact of the measures contained in the June Budget compared to those announced by the previous administration. Download a copy of the report from the DWP website.