Civil servants at the Department for Work and Pensions admitted they do not know how many people living in supported housing there are who will be affected by proposed benefit reforms. According to charities which attended a meeting with the DWP, civil servants from the department said they were unaware of the precise number of households that would be affected by plans to reform housing benefit payments to people in supported housing. Charities issued a warning that the DWP had failed to count more than 200,000 people who would be affected by the changes. The government had estimated that 130,000 people would be affected by its proposals - but charities put the number of people at around 350,000. Under the plans, councils would be given funds to ‘top up’ local housing allowance to cover the additional cost of providing supported housing. Read more on Inside Housing.
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