Research and analysis

Housing Benefit and structures and services: Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 34

This report presents findings on Housing Benefit fraud and error and limiting absences outside Great Britain, and changes to local authority structures and services.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 18 December 2018

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Summary: Findings from the Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 34: Fraud and error in Housing Benefit, changes to local authority structures and services and Housing Benefit limiting absences outside Great Britain

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Findings from the Local Authority Insight Survey Wave 34: Fraud and error in Housing Benefit, changes to local authority structures and services and Housing Benefit limiting absences outside Great Britain

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-119-7, RR969

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The local authority insight survey gathers feedback from local authority benefit managers on topics of interest to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Wave 34 of the survey examined:

• fraud and error in Housing Benefit – to understand and measure the effectiveness of activities local authorities have implemented to reduce fraud and error, including the Right Benefit Initiative scheme and use of caseload management information
• changes to local authority structures and services – to quantify and capture changes to local authorities’ structures and services in response to a series of welfare reforms, as well as their priorities for financial year 2018 to 2019
• the 4 week limit for absences outside Great Britain for Housing Benefit – to understand the impact of this change on local authority workloads

Authors: Joanne Maher and Tim Buchanan (NatCen).

Published 18 December 2018