Monday, 11 November 2013

Councils Fail To Spend Hardship Funds

Millions of pounds of unspent emergency housing funding could be returned to the government, after councils used just a fraction of their combined £155 million discretionary housing payment pot in the first half of the year. Figures show 161 of the 212 English councils that responded to an Inside Housing freedom of information request spent less than half their DHP funds in the first half of the financial year. Of these, 33 councils spent less than a quarter of their DHP allocation, while six spent less than 15 per cent.  Read more on Inside Housing.

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