Homelessness - Universal Credit and Housing Benefit
Case reference FOI2022/00896
Published 20 July 2022
Request
I write to request information on the number of households claiming Universal Credit and/or housing benefit who have presented to you as homeless while between January 2019 and April 2022.
As part of this request, I would like this information to be broken down into the following:
(i) The total number of households claiming Universal Credit presenting as homeless since January 2019, broken down into households living in leasehold property and council-owned property (otherwise known as council tenants) and years;
(i) The total number of households claiming housing benefit - part of the legacy welfare system - presenting as homeless since January 2019, broken down into households living in leasehold property and council-owned property (otherwise known as council tenants) and years.
Please present the information in Excel format.
Response
Please see the attached spreadsheet. Please note that it is not a requirement of Herefordshire Council to record the information requested. We gather this information where the client has chosen to advise us on whether they are in receipt of benefits. Therefore, these figures should not be relied upon.
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