Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit Quarterly Summary Statistics: May 2004
Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit
Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit (CTB) are income-related benefits administered by Local Authorities. People are eligible to claim HB if they are liable to pay rent (or are treated as if they were so liable) in respect of the dwelling they occupy as their home. CTB is designed to help people on low-income pay their Council Tax.
The number of Housing Benefit (HB) recipients increased during the quarter to May 2004 by just over 63 thousand (1.6%), a rise of 83 thousand (2.1%) in the year, to stand at 3.9 million.
The number of tenants in Registered Social Landlord (RSL) accommodation claiming rent allowance increased in the quarter by over 46 thousand (3.5%), an increase of just over 83 thousand (6.3%) in the year, to stand at 1.3 million.
The number of local authority tenants claiming a rent rebate increased by over 7 thousand (0.4%) over the quarter and decreased by 30 thousand (1.6%) in the year, to 1.8 million.
The main reason for the increase in RSL tenants and decrease of local authority tenants is the continuation of Large Stock Voluntary Transfer (LSVT), which is the transfer of LA tenancies to Registered Social Landlords.
Council Tax Benefit (CTB) recipients, excluding second adult rebates increased in the quarter by over 115 thousand (2.4%) to 4.8 million.
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Contents
| Table HB 1.1 | All Housing Benefit recipients by tenure and if paid as in receipt of/ not in receipt of IS/MIGJSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.1A | Working age Housing Benefit recipients by tenure and if paid as in receipt of/ not in receipt of IS/MIGJSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.1B | Elderly Housing Benefit recipients by tenure and if paid as in receipt of/ not in receipt of IS/MIGJSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.2 | All Rent Allowance recipients by tenure |
| Table HB 1.2A | Working age Rent Allowance recipients by tenure |
| Table HB 1.2B | Elderly Rent Allowance recipients by tenure |
| Table HB 1.3 | All Housing Benefit recipients average weekly amounts by tenure |
| Table HB 1.3A | Working age Housing Benefit recipients average weekly amounts by tenure |
| Table HB 1.3B | Elderly Housing Benefit recipients average weekly amounts by tenure |
| Table HB 1.4 | Breakdown of all Rent Allowance recipients average weekly amounts by tenure |
| Table HB 1.4A | Breakdown of Working age Rent Allowance recipients average weekly amounts by tenure |
| Table HB 1.4B | Breakdown of Elderly Rent Allowance recipients average weekly amounts by tenure |
| Table HB 1.5 | All Housing Benefit average weekly amounts by paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.5A | Working age Housing Benefit average weekly amounts by paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.5B | Elderly Housing Benefit average weekly amounts by paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.6 | Annual percentage change in Housing Benefit caseload by region and paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.7 | Housing Benefit caseload by Government Office Region (GOR) and tenure |
| Table HB 1.8 | All Housing Benefit recipients average weekly amounts by Government Office Region (GOR) and tenure |
| Table HB 1.9 | All Housing Benefit recipients weekly eligible rent by Government Office Region (GOR) and tenure |
| Table HB 1.10 | Housing Benefit recipients assessed under the Local Reference Rent (Jan '96 or Oct '97) Scheme |
| Table HB 1.11 | Housing Benefit recipients assessed under the Single Room Rent (Oct 96) Scheme |
| Table HB 1.12 | Average weekly amounts of rent for all recipients with a deregulated tenancy, by scheme under |
| Table HB 2.1 | All main Council Tax Benefit recipients paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 2.1A | Working age main Council Tax Benefit recipients paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 2.1B | Elderly main Council Tax Benefit recipients paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 2.2 | All average weekly amounts of Council Tax Benefit and eligible Council Tax paid as in receipt of/not in receipt |
| Table HB 2.2A | Working age average weekly amounts of Council Tax Benefit and eligible Council Tax paid as in receipt of/not in receipt |
| Table HB 2.2B | Elderly average weekly amounts of Council Tax Benefit and eligible Council Tax paid as in receipt of/not in receipt |
| Table HB 2.3 | Annual percentage change in Council Tax Benefit caseload by Government Office Region (GOR) paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 2.4 | Council Tax Benefit caseload by Government Office Region (GOR) paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 2.5 | Average weekly amounts of Council Tax Benefit and average weekly amounts of eligible Council Tax by Government Office Region (GOR) |
| Table HB 3.1 | Housing Benefit recipients by County, Local Authority and tenure, paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA (IB) |
| Table HB 3.2 | Council Tax Benefit recipients by County, Local Authority and tenure, paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/MIG/JSA (IB) |
