More than £1 million set aside to help tenants affected
by welfare reform will be handed back to government by underspending councils. Eight
English councils failed to spend a total of £1.2 million of their £6.4 million
allocation of discretionary housing payments. Among the English councils,
Wandsworth was due to hand back the most, with £544,783 left unspent, while
North Lincolnshire had used only 17 per cent of its £238,000 pot. A spokesperson
for Conservative-led Wandsworth said DHPs had been allocated to ‘genuinely
needy families’, but the Treasury had overestimated the impact of welfare
reform. However, a survey showed many larger cities across the UK had spent
their entire DHP allocation with some authorities applying for additional
funds, or dipping into their own resources.
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