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