Guidance
From:
Department for Work and Pensions
First published:
10 February 2015
Part of:
Reducing fraud and error in Housing Benefit: financial support for local authorities and Simplifying the welfare system and making sure work pays
Local authority template to monitor reductions in weekly Housing Benefit entitlement under the Fraud and Error Reduction Incentive Scheme.
The Fraud and Error Reduction Incentive Scheme (FERIS) provides financial incentives to local authorities who reduce fraud and error in their Housing Benefit cases.
Under the scheme each local authority is set a baseline for a set period to measure their performance against.
Local authorities can copy their Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) data for the baseline period into the FERIS monitoring template to verify their baseline.
Local authorities can also use the template to monitor progress in meeting their FERIS thresholds. The thresholds are a percentage reduction in fraud and error that local authorities must make to qualify for help from FERIS.
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