Official Statistics

Use of Discretionary Housing Payments: financial year 2019 to 2020

Analysis of local authorities' use of Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) funds, based on end-of-year monitoring and financial returns.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 13 August 2020

Applies to England and Wales

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Use of Discretionary Housing Payments, analysis of end of year returns from local authorities: April 2019 to March 2020

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Data tables: Use of Discretionary Housing Payments, analysis of end of year returns from local authorities: April 2019 to March 2020

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Background information and methodology: use of Discretionary Housing Payments statistics

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Details

This publication provides analysis of the use of DHPs.

DHPs are monetary awards that can be made by local authorities to people experiencing financial difficulty with housing costs who qualify for Housing Benefit or the housing costs element of Universal Credit.

This statistical release presents analysis of information submitted to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by local authorities, covering the financial year April 2018 to March 2019.

Local authorities provide details of their use of DHP funds to DWP twice a year. These are published for the first 6 months of the financial year and for the whole of the financial year.

We published statistics on the Use of Discretionary Housing Payments: April to September 2019 on 18 December 2019.

DHPs and Scotland

DHPs for Scotland were devolved from 1 April 2017, under the Scotland Act 2016 implementing the Smith Commission Agreement.

Published 13 August 2020