Housing Benefit – a literature review
By Sylvia Karabiner and Camellia Raha
In the Budget 2008 statement, the Chancellor announced an internal review of the working age Housing Benefit (HB) system to be taken forward by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and HM Treasury (HMT). This literature review forms part of the evidence base gathered as part of the internal HB review.
It is a collection of mainly DWP commissioned, published evidence relating to Housing Benefit since 1992. The literature review is organised around five main themes which are: Social Housing and Worklessness, Underoccupation and Mobility, HB as an in-work benefit, Single Room Rent (SRR) and the Private Rented Sector (PRS) and Management and Performance.
June 2009 84 pages 297x210mm
ISBN 978 1 84712 591 0
(304KB)