Following the announcement that Government is dropping
Local Housing Allowance rates from the funding mechanism for supported housing,
the Committees have now received the full response from Government to their
joint report. The response shows that the Government has also acted on the
Committees' concerns that local authorities should not have to "top
up" payment for supported housing, by introducing a new "sheltered
rent" that means the cost of sheltered and extra care housing will be
entirely covered by Housing Benefit or its replacement Universal Credit, in
accordance with and actually going further than another of the committees'
central recommendations. Read more on the Parliament website.
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