Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit Quarterly Summary Statistics: May 2005
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 2005 by just over 20 thousand (0.5%), a rise of 151 thousand (3.9%) in the year, to stand at 4.0 million.
The number of tenants in Registered Social Landlord (RSL) accommodation claiming rent allowance increased in the quarter by over 20 thousand (1.5%), an increase of 88 thousand (6.4%) in the year, to stand at 1.4 million.
The number of local authority tenants claiming a rent rebate decreased by 15 thousand (0.8%) over the quarter and decreased by just over 12 thousand (0.7%) in the year, to 1.8 million.
Large Stock Voluntary Transfers (LSVT), which is the transfer of LA tenancies to Registered Social Landlords, continue to increase RSL caseload numbers and decrease in local authority tenant numbers.
Council Tax Benefit (CTB) recipients, excluding second adult rebates increased in the quarter by 29 thousand (0.6%) to 4.9 million.
There is evidence to suggest that recent changes to the administration
of HB and CTB, such as the abolition of benefit periods and the requirement
to make a new claim when moving into work, may have contributed to the overall
rise in the reported caseloads, particularly from November 2003 onwards.
The reported caseload rises may largely reflect a reduction in the number
of outstanding claims which tend to be not measured in the caseloads count
due to these administration changes, rather that a true rise in the number
of benefit recipients.
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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/PC(GC)/JSA(IB) |
| Table HB 1.2 | All Rent Allowance recipients by tenure |
| Table HB 1.3 | All 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 1.5 | All Housing Benefit average weekly amounts by paid as in receipt of/not in receipt of IS/PC(GC)/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/PC(GC)/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/PC(GC)/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 of IS/PC(GC)/JSA(IB) |
| 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/PC(GC)/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/PC(GC)/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/PC(GC)/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/PC(GC)/JSA(IB) |
