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Housing Benefit

Volume 28: debated on Friday 30 July 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will place in the Library a copy of any document regulating the administrative arrangements to be observed when local authorities and offices of the Department of Health and Social Security co-operate in dealing with claims for the new housing benefit.

I will shortly be placing in the Library a copy of the circular to local authorities giving detailed advice on the implementation of the housing benefits scheme, including liaison arrangements with DHSS local offices.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what he estimates will be the figures for general levels of rent for the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2, schedule 4, of the draft Housing Benefits Regulations 1982.

Approvals for the high rent provisions will run from November to November. I am not able to estimate the thresholds that will apply in November 1983, following the introduction of the housing benefits scheme.