S8/2019: Payment of New Burdens relating to the administration of Housing Benefit fraud referrals for 2019-20
Updated 27 November 2019
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Introduction
1. This circular is to inform you of additional funding of £0.7million that will be allocated to local authorities (LAs) for the costs of supporting the administration of Housing Benefit (HB) fraud referrals.
Funding methodology
2. The methodology used in the calculations for the New Burdens Assessment for supporting the Single Fraud Investigation Service (SFIS) since 2014-15 has also been used in the calculations for 2019-20. This methodology was agreed in consultation with the Local Authority Welfare Steering Group (LAWSG).
Review of funding
3. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has received feedback from across the LA community expressing concern that the current funding allocation does not meet the costs associated with supporting HB fraud referrals. Consequently, DWP agreed to undertake a review in consultation with 35 volunteer LAs.
4. Analysis of review outcomes indicated that, overall, current New Burdens funding for these activities is broadly accurate. It has, however, highlighted a wide difference between activity timings across LAs and does not necessarily accurately reimburse individual LAs for the amount of activities they undertake. As a result, DWP’s Housing Delivery Division is currently considering whether a more sophisticated New Burdens allocation methodology for this aspect might be appropriate for 2020-21.
5. Meanwhile, DWP has agreed to distribute the existing agreed funding (£0.7million) to LAs for 2019-20.
Payment details
6. The amount of funding to be paid to each LA is given at Annex A.
7. Each LA will receive their allocation in week commencing 8 April 2019.
Allocation of funding: Annex A
| LA | Amount (£) |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen | £2,795 |
| Aberdeenshire | £1,932 |
| Adur | £519 |
| Allerdale | £884 |
| Amber Valley | £1,000 |
| Angus | £1,594 |
| Argyll and Bute | £1,202 |
| Arun | £1,357 |
| Ashfield | £1,277 |
| Ashford | £1,042 |
| Aylesbury Vale | £1,247 |
| Babergh | £598 |
| Barking and Dagenham | £3,242 |
| Barnet | £4,628 |
| Barnsley | £2,805 |
| Barrow in Furness | £667 |
| Basildon | £1,930 |
| Basingstoke and Deane | £1,274 |
| Bassetlaw | £1,024 |
| Bath and North East Somerset | £1,409 |
| Bedford | £1,462 |
| Bexley | £2,137 |
| Birmingham | £15,774 |
| Blaby | £469 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | £1,652 |
| Blackpool | £2,563 |
| Blaenau Gwent | £1,037 |
| Bolsover | £779 |
| Bolton | £3,281 |
| Boston | £695 |
| Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole | £3,952 |
| Bracknell Forest | £890 |
| Bradford | £5,524 |
| Braintree | £1,185 |
| Breckland | £1,070 |
| Brent | £5,571 |
| Brentwood | £438 |
| Bridgend | £1,556 |
| Brighton and Hove | £3,580 |
| Bristol | £5,374 |
| Broadland | £651 |
| Bromley | £2,697 |
| Bromsgrove | £509 |
| Broxbourne | £840 |
| Broxtowe | £802 |
| Burnley | £1,132 |
| Bury | £1,788 |
| Caerphilly | £2,070 |
| Calderdale | £2,223 |
| Cambridge | £1,064 |
| Camden | £4,525 |
| Cannock Chase | £884 |
| Canterbury | £1,284 |
| Cardiff | £4,175 |
| Carlisle | £953 |
| Carmarthenshire | £1,782 |
| Castle Point | £613 |
| Central Bedfordshire | £1,768 |
| Ceredigion | £589 |
| Charnwood | £1,029 |
| Chelmsford | £1,178 |
| Cheltenham | £917 |
| Cherwell | £997 |
| Cheshire East | £2,449 |
| Cheshire West and Chester | £2,749 |
| Chesterfield | £1,269 |
| Chichester | £919 |
| Chiltern | £512 |
| Chorley | £801 |
| City of London | £194 |
| Clackmannanshire | £1,004 |
| Colchester | £1,533 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | £265 |
| Conwy | £1,191 |
| Copeland | £668 |
| Corby | £700 |
| Cornwall | £5,609 |
| Cotswold | £565 |
| Coventry | £3,792 |
| Craven | £303 |
| Crawley | £1,345 |
| Croydon | £5,110 |
| Dacorum | £1,348 |
| Darlington | £1,299 |
| Dartford | £807 |
| Daventry | £479 |
| Denbighshire | £1,118 |
| Derby | £2,790 |
| Derbyshire Dales | £431 |
| Doncaster | £3,452 |
| Dorset | £2,933 |
| Dover | £1,201 |
| Dudley | £3,246 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | £2,286 |
| Dundee | £3,529 |
| Durham | £6,600 |
| Ealing | £5,018 |
| East Ayrshire | £2,404 |
| East Cambridgeshire | £582 |
| East Devon | £968 |
| East Dunbartonshire | £847 |
| East Hampshire | £618 |
| East Hertfordshire | £913 |
| East Lindsey | £1,547 |
| East Lothian | £1,337 |
| East Northamptonshire | £580 |
| East Renfrewshire | £735 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £2,363 |
| East Staffordshire | £888 |
| East Suffolk | £2,126 |
| Eastbourne | £1,292 |
| Eastleigh | £816 |
| Eden | £294 |
| Edinburgh | £7,048 |
| Elmbridge | £856 |
| Enfield | £5,104 |
| Epping Forest | £971 |
| Epsom and Ewell | £448 |
| Erewash | £1,010 |
| Exeter | £1,174 |
| Falkirk | £2,432 |
| Fareham | £554 |
| Fenland | £961 |
| Fife | £5,885 |
| Flintshire | £1,279 |
| Folkestone and Hythe | £1,226 |
| Forest of Dean | £680 |
| Fylde | £615 |
| Gateshead | £2,857 |
| Gedling | £852 |
| Glasgow | £16,569 |
| Gloucester | £1,300 |
| Gosport | £829 |
| Gravesham | £985 |
| Great Yarmouth | £1,390 |
| Greenwich | £4,590 |
| Guildford | £874 |
| Gwynedd | £1,079 |
| Hackney | £6,950 |
| Halton | £1,614 |
| Hambleton | £557 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | £3,342 |
| Harborough | £372 |
| Haringey | £5,104 |
| Harlow | £1,154 |
| Harrogate | £921 |
| Harrow | £2,521 |
| Hart | £358 |
| Hartlepool | £1,555 |
| Hastings | £1,444 |
| Havant | £828 |
| Havering | £2,180 |
| Herefordshire | £1,504 |
| Hertsmere | £907 |
| High Peak | £725 |
| Highland | £2,759 |
| Hillingdon | £3,147 |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | £629 |
| Horsham | £763 |
| Hounslow | £3,213 |
| Huntingdonshire | £1,077 |
| Hyndburn | £901 |
| Inverclyde | £1,702 |
| Ipswich | £1,676 |
| Isle of Anglesey | £682 |
| Isle of Wight | £1,544 |
| Isles of Scilly | £6 |
| Islington | £5,118 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | £2,909 |
| Kettering | £799 |
| King’s Lynn and West Norfolk | £1,284 |
| Kingston upon Hull | £4,454 |
| Kingston upon Thames | £1,400 |
| Kirklees | £4,289 |
| Knowsley | £2,384 |
| Lambeth | £6,562 |
| Lancaster | £1,255 |
| Leeds | £9,268 |
| Leicester | £4,491 |
| Lewes | £857 |
| Lewisham | £5,794 |
| Lichfield | £603 |
| Lincoln | £1,247 |
| Liverpool | £8,042 |
| Luton | £2,307 |
| Maidstone | £1,221 |
| Maldon | £407 |
| Malvern Hills | £553 |
| Manchester | £8,654 |
| Mansfield | £1,187 |
| Medway | £2,723 |
| Melton | £311 |
| Mendip | £887 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | £766 |
| Merton | £1,947 |
| Mid Devon | £592 |
| Mid Suffolk | £541 |
| Mid Sussex | £756 |
| Middlesbrough | £2,522 |
| Midlothian | £1,259 |
| Milton Keynes | £2,866 |
| Mole Valley | £545 |
| Monmouthshire | £681 |
| Moray | £1,026 |
| Neath Port Talbot | £1,869 |
| New Forest | £1,150 |
| Newark and Sherwood | £921 |
| Newcastle under Lyme | £1,044 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | £4,203 |
| Newham | £5,288 |
| Newport | £1,845 |
| North Ayrshire | £2,979 |
| North Devon | £867 |
| North East Derbyshire | £870 |
| North East Lincolnshire | £1,934 |
| North Hertfordshire | £1,041 |
| North Kesteven | £680 |
| North Lanarkshire | £6,182 |
| North Lincolnshire | £1,559 |
| North Norfolk | £884 |
| North Somerset | £1,791 |
| North Tyneside | £2,483 |
| North Warwickshire | £467 |
| North West Leicestershire | £659 |
| Northampton | £2,183 |
| Northumberland | £3,221 |
| Norwich | £2,164 |
| Nottingham | £4,846 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | £1,237 |
| Oadby and Wigston | £289 |
| Oldham | £2,756 |
| Orkney | £190 |
| Oxford | £1,491 |
| Pembrokeshire | £1,229 |
| Pendle | £865 |
| Perth and Kinross | £1,635 |
| Peterborough | £2,293 |
| Plymouth | £3,296 |
| Portsmouth | £3,068 |
| Powys | £1,045 |
| Preston | £1,507 |
| Reading | £1,919 |
| Redbridge | £2,786 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | £1,840 |
| Redditch | £806 |
| Reigate and Banstead | £946 |
| Renfrewshire | £3,223 |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf | £2,692 |
| Ribble Valley | £243 |
| Richmondshire | £283 |
| Richmond Upon Thames | £1,436 |
| Rochdale | £2,764 |
| Rochford | £459 |
| Rossendale | £631 |
| Rother | £774 |
| Rotherham | £3,130 |
| Rugby | £717 |
| Runnymede | £578 |
| Rushcliffe | £553 |
| Rushmoor | £926 |
| Rutland | £190 |
| Ryedale | £368 |
| Salford | £3,644 |
| Sandwell | £4,457 |
| Scarborough | £1,251 |
| Scottish Borders | £1,577 |
| Sedgemoor | £1,051 |
| Sefton | £3,062 |
| Selby | £532 |
| Sevenoaks | £778 |
| Sheffield | £6,722 |
| Shetland | £177 |
| Shropshire | £2,200 |
| Slough | £1,701 |
| Solihull | £1,722 |
| Somerset West and Taunton | £1,372 |
| South Ayrshire | £1,925 |
| South Bucks | £380 |
| South Cambridgeshire | £794 |
| South Derbyshire | £585 |
| South Gloucestershire | £1,640 |
| South Hams | £636 |
| South Holland | £664 |
| South Kesteven | £1,042 |
| South Lakeland | £555 |
| South Lanarkshire | £4,986 |
| South Norfolk | £826 |
| South Northamptonshire | £397 |
| South Oxfordshire | £758 |
| South Ribble | £663 |
| South Somerset | £1,324 |
| South Staffordshire | £691 |
| South Tyneside | £2,564 |
| Southampton | £3,204 |
| Southend on Sea | £2,234 |
| Southwark | £6,008 |
| Spelthorne | £729 |
| St Albans | £852 |
| St Helens | £2,113 |
| Stafford | £787 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | £525 |
| Stevenage | £997 |
| Stirling | £1,029 |
| Stockport | £2,419 |
| Stockton on Tees | £2,260 |
| Stoke on Trent | £3,363 |
| Stratford on Avon | £827 |
| Stroud | £785 |
| Sunderland | £4,190 |
| Surrey Heath | £435 |
| Sutton | £1,818 |
| Swale | £1,444 |
| Swansea | £2,872 |
| Swindon | £1,859 |
| Tameside | £2,771 |
| Tamworth | £683 |
| Tandridge | £555 |
| Teignbridge | £1,065 |
| Telford and Wrekin | £2,058 |
| Tendring | £1,705 |
| Test Valley | £797 |
| Tewkesbury | £575 |
| Thanet | £1,985 |
| Three Rivers | £643 |
| Thurrock | £1,655 |
| Tonbridge and Malling | £902 |
| Torbay | £1,837 |
| Torfaen | £1,189 |
| Torridge | £578 |
| Tower Hamlets | £6,100 |
| Trafford | £1,816 |
| Tunbridge Wells | £861 |
| Uttlesford | £438 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | £1,173 |
| Vale of White Horse | £742 |
| Wakefield | £3,944 |
| Walsall | £3,594 |
| Waltham Forest | £3,718 |
| Wandsworth | £4,439 |
| Warrington | £1,664 |
| Warwick | £901 |
| Watford | £943 |
| Waverley | £758 |
| Wealden | £862 |
| Wellingborough | £719 |
| Welwyn Hatfield | £1,115 |
| West Berkshire | £1,067 |
| West Devon | £414 |
| West Dunbartonshire | £2,228 |
| West Lancashire | £909 |
| West Lindsey | £821 |
| West Lothian | £2,885 |
| West Oxfordshire | £652 |
| West Suffolk | £1,324 |
| Westminster | £4,215 |
| Wigan | £3,294 |
| Wiltshire | £3,416 |
| Winchester | £750 |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | £921 |
| Wirral | £4,010 |
| Woking | £683 |
| Wokingham | £591 |
| Wolverhampton | £3,674 |
| Worcester | £950 |
| Worthing | £932 |
| Wrexham | £1,502 |
| Wychavon | £861 |
| Wycombe | £1,164 |
| Wyre | £968 |
| Wyre Forest | £1,014 |
| York | £1,338 |