Families Missing Out On ‘Vital Funding’ Under Benefit Cap

DWP figures show that 53,000 households had their housing benefit capped at November 2018. The figures are said to be having a ‘profound impact on people’s lives’, with 74% (39,000) of households being that of single-parent families, and 76% of those (29,000) having at least one child aged under five. Further analysis showed that families could be missing out on ‘vital’ funding designed to help soften the impact of the cap. Councils in England were allocated almost £53m in Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) from central government in 2017-18 to support people affected by the benefit cap but only £37m was spent, with 242 out of 274 councils failing to spend all their allocation. Read more on 24housing.

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