Use of Discretionary Housing Payments: financial year 2021 to 2022
Analysis of local authorities' use of Discretionary Housing Payment funds, based on end-of-year monitoring and financial returns.
Applies to England and Wales
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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of Discretionary Housing Payments statistics.
This publication provides analysis of the use of Discretionary Housing Payments (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 ending March 2022. Local Authorities provide details of their use of DHP funds to DWP for these statistics twice a year. These are published for the first 6 months of the financial year and for the whole of the financial year.
DHPs and Scotland
DHPs for Scotland were devolved from 1 April 2017, under the Scotland Act 2016 implementing the Smith Commission Agreement.
Notices
Users are advised of the following changes from this release:
- the addition of the data table which details Local Authorities’ DHP allocations, expenditure and percentage of allocation spent since devolution in Scotland
- the removal of the data table which compares the DHP expenditure associated with each welfare reform to the funding allocated in relation to each welfare reform
For more information see the background information and methodology document published alongside this release of statistics.
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Next releases
Use of Discretionary Housing Payments statistics are published twice a year. The dates for future releases are listed in the statistics release calendar.
Pre-release access
In addition to staff who are responsible for the production and quality assurance of the statistics, up to 24-hour pre-release access is provided to ministers and other officials. We publish the job titles and organisations of the people who have been granted up to 24-hour pre-release access to the Discretionary Housing Payments statistics.