Housing and Heating Benefits

Housing and heating benefits by local authority. * Cold Weather Payments – Estimated number of Cold Weather Payments and total amounts paid. * Discretionary Housing Payments – Statistics on local authorities’ use of Discretionary Housing Payment funds. * Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit – Includes numbers receiving HB and the amount received. Council Tax Benefit data was provided to 2013. * HB caseload – Numbers of HB claimants. * HB entitlement reductions – Statistics on HB entitlement reductions identified by local authorities as a proportion of expected reductions. * HB flows data – Numbers of HB claims beginning and ending. * HB debt recoveries – Data on incorrectly overpaid Housing Benefit (formerly HB recoveries and fraud) * HB speed of processing – Measure of the average time it takes to process a new claim or a change in circumstance of an existing claimant. * Winter Fuel Payment – Includes recipient and household data, and payments in EEA countries and Switzerland.