Appendices A to G

Q: Appendix F – Amounts for rent rebate subsidy deduction calculation for LAs in Wales 2020 to 2021

Local Authority Specified amount ‘O’ Guideline rent increase ‘P’ Caerphilly 91.72 4.05 Cardiff 102.98 4.44 Carmarthenshire 91.24 4.05 Denbighshire 88.96 4.10 Flintshire 92.37 4.17 Isle of Anglesey 88.11 4.09 Pembrokeshire 92.19 3.90 Powys 93.08 4.07 Swansea 90.10 4.15 Vale of Glamorgan 99.69 4.25 Wrexham 91.34 4.11

Question 1

Appendix A – Summary of 2020 to 2021 benefit subsidy arrangements

Accepted Answer

Basic rate of subsidy	Arrangements for 2019 to 2020	Arrangements for 2022 to 2021	Remarks
	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change

Other rates of subsidy	Arrangements for 2019 to 2020	Arrangements for 2020 to 2021	Remarks
1. Backdated awards	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change
2. Overpayments i) Eligible	All Housing Benefit 40%	All Housing Benefit 40%	No change
ii. LA error	All Housing Benefit 100% 40% or Nil	All Housing Benefit 100% 40% or Nil	No change
iii. Administrative delay	All Housing Benefit 100% 40% or Nil	All Housing Benefit 100% 40% or Nil	No change
iv) Technical	All Housing Benefit Nil	All Housing Benefit Nil	No change

vi) Indicative rent level	Rent allowance 100%	Rent allowance 100%	No change
vii) Recovered indicative rent level	Rent allowance Nil	Rent allowance Nil	No change
viii) Duplicate	Rent allowance 25%	Rent allowance 25%	No change
ix) Departmental error	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change
x) Recovered Departmental error	All Housing Benefit Nil	All Housing Benefit Nil	No change
3. Disproportionate increase in LA rents – HB attributable to increase in rents of HB Tenants which exceed those of non-HB tenants	Scotland Rent Rebate Nil Wales HRA rent rebate Nil	Scotland Rent Rebate Nil Wales HRA rent rebate Nil	No change
4. Unreasonable rents – deregulated private sector tenancies (cases not affected by the January 1996 changes only)	Rent Allowances Expenditure up to the level of the rent officer determination 100% Expenditure above the rent officer determination 60% or Nil	Rent Allowances Expenditure up to the level of the rent officer determination 100% Expenditure above the rent officer determination 60% or Nil	No change
5. Temporary accommodation: Board and Lodging, accommodation held on license by LAs or RSLs, accommodation held on a short term lease by LAs or RSLs	Expenditure up to and including the appropriate LHA based cap or absolute cap 100% Expenditure above the appropriate cap Nil	Expenditure up to and including the appropriate LHA based cap or absolute cap 100% Expenditure above the appropriate cap Nil	No change
6. Modular Improvements Rule	HRA rent rebates in England and Wales Nil	Expenditure up to and including the appropriate LHA based cap 100% HRA Rent Rebates in England and Wales Nil	No change
7. Extended Payments	All HB	All HB	No change
8. Discretionary Local Schemes	0.2% addition to their annual benefit subsidy, capped at 75% of the total benefit cost of the local scheme to the LA	0.2% addition to their annual benefit subsidy, capped at 75% of the total benefit cost of the local scheme to the LA	No change

Question 2

Appendix B – Effective dates of rent officers’ determination

Accepted Answer

Basic rate of subsidy	Arrangements for 2019 to 2020	Arrangements for 2022 to 2021	Remarks
	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change

At the 52 week review

Event		Effective date
7	Determination is higher than existing determination	Rent paid weekly or in multiples of weeks: The first day of the benefit week in which the day following the last day of the 52 week exclusion period (starting from the date of the previous application to the rent officer) occurs. Rent paid other than weekly or in multiples of weeks: The day following the last day of the 52 week exclusion period.
8	Determination is lower than determination	The first day of the benefit week following existing the date the local authority receives the determination.

Question 3

Appendix C – Subsidy arrangements for hostel accommodation

Accepted Answer

A definition of hostel is contained at regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006.

Hostel Type	Subsidy Control
A. Hostel run by RSL RSL is landlord	Referral to the rent officer^{[footnote 2]}
B. Local Authority Hostels:
i. including social services hostels where Social Services Department is part of the same LA as the Housing Department	Outside HRA: disproportionate rent increase (DRI) rule
ii. as i but RSL is managing agent (LA is landlord)	Outside HRA: DRI rule
iii. where Social Services Department is part of County Council	Mandatory referral to the rent officer
iv. as iii but RSL is managing agent	Mandatory referral to the rent officer
C. Health Authority Hostels	Mandatory referral to the rent officer
D. Resettlement Units	Mandatory referral to the rent officer
E. Private Sector Hostels
i. private landlord is landlord	Mandatory referral to the rent officer
ii. RSL is managing agent	Mandatory referral to the rent officer
F. Salvation Army Hostels referral as	Mandatory referral to the rent officer (unless registered as RSL – then per ^{[footnote 2]}
G. YMCA Hostels referral as	Mandatory referral to the rent officer (unless registered as RSL – then per ^{[footnote 2]}
H. Youth Hostels referral as	Mandatory referral to the rent officer (unless registered as RSL – then per ^{[footnote 2]}

Question 4

Appendix D – Administration Subsidy distribution for 2020 to 2021

Accepted Answer

Basic rate of subsidy	Arrangements for 2019 to 2020	Arrangements for 2022 to 2021	Remarks
	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change

Local authority - Scotland	Final 2020 to 2021 DWP HB administration subsidy allocation (£)
Aberdeen	626,005
Aberdeenshire	518,599
Angus	326,762
Argyll and Bute	280,487
Clackmannanshire	184,878
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	83,837
Dumfries and Galloway	535,973
Dundee	730,723
East Ayrshire	472,522
East Dunbartonshire	199,204
East Lothian	265,529
East Renfrewshire	158,914
Edinburgh	1,564,984
Falkirk	512,104
Fife	1,174,274
Glasgow	3,560,703
Highland	611,756
Inverclyde	355,483
Midlothian	250,787
Moray	231,192
North Ayrshire	604,615
North Lanarkshire	1,318,302
Orkney	52,638
Perth and Kinross	387,245
Renfrewshire	700,217
Scottish Borders	367,567
Shetland	43,904
South Ayrshire	385,273
South Lanarkshire	1,010,688
Stirling	210,959
West Dunbartonshire	492,669
West Lothian	603,603
Total	18,822,396

Local authority - Wales	Final 2020 to 2021 DWP HB administration subsidy allocation (£)
Blaenau Gwent	300,047
Bridgend	448,310
Caerphilly	602,219
Cardiff	1,183,113
Carmarthenshire	530,564
Ceredigion	187,574
Conwy	346,778
Denbighshire	317,569
Flintshire	355,701
Gwynedd	336,138
Isle of Anglesey	204,082
Merthyr Tydfil	220,509
Monmouthshire	197,910
Neath Port Talbot	518,181
Newport	511,910
Pembrokeshire	359,023
Powys	312,397
Rhondda Cynon Taf	787,529
Swansea	791,906
Torfaen	325,712
Vale of Glamorgan	344,784
Wrexham	414,788
Total	9,596,744

Question 5

Appendix E –  Additional Administration Subsidy for 2020 to 2021

Accepted Answer

Basic rate of subsidy	Arrangements for 2019 to 2020	Arrangements for 2022 to 2021	Remarks
	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change

Local authority - Scotland	Additional 2020 to 2021 DWP HB administration subsidy allocation (£)
Aberdeen	66,115
Aberdeenshire	25,626
Angus	16,117
Argyll and Bute	20,217
Clackmannanshire	11,877
Dumfries and Galloway	31,328
Dundee	58,017
East Ayrshire	30,995
East Dunbartonshire	7,834
East Lothian	10,470
East Renfrewshire	9,279
Edinburgh	220,375
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	5,782
Falkirk	32,425
Fife	77,802
Glasgow	604,600
Highland	30,510
Inverclyde	20,986
Midlothian	14,575
Moray	13,249
North Ayrshire	44,931
North Lanarkshire	111,386
Orkney	2,868
Perth and Kinross	21,184
Renfrewshire	73,879
Scottish Borders	20,620
Shetland	3,031
South Ayrshire	26,703
South Lanarkshire	67,856
Stirling	12,257
West Dunbartonshire	64,388
West Lothian	49,931
Total - Scotland	1,807,213

Local authority - Wales	Additional 2020 to 2021 DWP HB administration subsidy allocation (£)
Blaenau Gwent	37,625
Bridgend	47,554
Caerphilly	74,019
Cardiff	142,880
Carmarthenshire	66,036
Ceredigion	21,901
Conwy	30,867
Denbighshire	29,721
Flintshire	19,906
Gwynedd	34,972
Isle of Anglesey	23,840
Merthyr Tydfil	27,439
Monmouthshire	14,188
Neath Port Talbot	48,285
Newport	49,905
Pembrokeshire	36,784
Powys	26,971
Rhondda Cynon Taf	120,019
Swansea	67,952
Torfaen	24,591
Vale of Glamorgan	37,723
Wrexham	29,447
Total - Wales	1,012,625

Question 6

Appendix F – Amounts for rent rebate subsidy deduction calculation for LAs in Wales 2020 to 2021

Accepted Answer

Basic rate of subsidy	Arrangements for 2019 to 2020	Arrangements for 2022 to 2021	Remarks
	All Housing Benefit 100%	All Housing Benefit 100%	No change

Question 7

Appendix G – Subsidy arrangements for Temporary Accommodation

Accepted Answer

Calculating subsidy

1. The weekly amount of subsidy payable in cases subject to Articles 17 to 17C is the lowest of the:

weekly HB entitlement (the amount paid to the customer for the week or part week, as the case may be)
maximum weekly subsidy amount (described below), or
upper cap limit £375 or £500 (also detailed below)

2. A maximum weekly subsidy cap of £500 is applicable in respect of customers placed into temporary accommodation located in the following Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs), in London:

Central London
Inner West
Inner North
Inner South West
Inner East
Inner South East
Outer South West

3. A maximum weekly subsidy cap of £375 is applicable for customers placed into temporary accommodation located in:

all remaining BRMAs in London (not listed above), and
all other BRMAs outside of London

Notes for all cases:

by landlord we mean the claimant’s immediate landlord, i.e. the person to whom the claimant is ultimately liable to pay their rent
from April 2011, the subsidy scheme only applies to ‘homelessness accommodation’. This is accommodation made available to discharge any of the LAs statutory homelessness functions, or to prevent homelessness
the legislation now refers to all ‘licensed’ accommodation cases as, ‘accommodation which the authority has a right to use under an agreement, other than a lease, with a third party’
all cases where the person’s appropriate home is in supported housing that is ‘exempt accommodation’, will continue to be excluded from this scheme

Cases subject to Articles 17 to 17C

Item no.	Accommodation	Landlord	Treatment under HB	Maximum weekly subsidy amount	Cell no. on subsidy claim form
1	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation (excluding prevention cases): - Board and lodging (B&B)	LA or RSL	Non HRA rent rebate or Rent Allowance	One bedroom LHA rate	012 and 013 – LA landlord or 104 and 105 - RSL
2	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation: - Non self-contained - Held on licence	LA or RSL	Non HRA rent rebate or Rent Allowance	One bedroom LHA rate	012 and 013 - LA landlord or 104 and 105 - RSL
3	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation: - Non self-contained - Leased to the LA for up to 10 years (Including hostels on a lease) - Period up to 10 years - Outside HRA in England - In or outside HRA in Wales and Scotland	LA	Non HRA rent rebate in England Non HRA or HRA rent rebate in Wales or Scotland	90% one bedroom LHA rate	014 and 015 (non HRA in Wales and HRA in Scotland. 056 and 057 (HRA Wales)
4	Wales or Scotland only Homelessness accommodation: - Non self-contained - Leased to the LA (Including hostels on a lease) - In or outside HRA	LA	Non HRA or HRA rent rebate in Wales and Scotland	90% one bedroom LHA rate	014 and 015 (non HRA in Wales and Scotland and HRA in Scotland) 056 and 057 (HRA Wales)
5	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation: - Non self-contained - Leased to or owned by RSL (Including hostels) - Any period	RSL	Rent Allowance	90% one bedroom LHA rate	106 and 107
6	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation: - Self contained - Held on licence by LA or RSL	LA or RSL	Non HRA rent rebate or Rent Allowance	90% of appropriate LHA rate	014 and 015 - LA or 106 and 107 - RSL
7	England Homelessness accommodation: - Self-contained - Leased to the LA for up to 10 years - Outside HRA	LA	Non HRA rent rebate in England	90% of appropriate LHA rate	014 and 015
8	Wales and Scotland Homelessness accommodation: - Self-contained - Leased to the LA - Any period - In or outside HRA	LA	Non HRA or HRA rent rebate in Wales and Scotland	90% of appropriate LHA rate	014 and 015 (non HRA in Wales and Scotland and HRA in Scotland. 056 and 057 in Wales
9	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation: - Self contained - Leased to RSL - Owned by RSL^{[footnote 3]} - Any period	RSL	Rent Allowance	90% of appropriate LHA rate	106 and 107
10	Great Britain Homelessness accommodation: - Leased to or owned by RSL - Sub-leased to the LA Treat as 3, 4, 7 or 8 - LA-leased	LA	Non HRA rent rebate in England, Non HRA or HRA rent rebate in Wales and Scotland	90% of appropriate LHA rate (use one bed rate if non self-contained)	014 and 015 (non HRA in England, Wales and Scotland, HRA in Scotland) 056 and 057 (HRA in Wales)

Cases which are not subject to Articles 17 to 17C

Item No.	Accommodation	Landlord	Treatment under HB	Maximum weekly subsidy amount	Cell no. on subsidy claim form
11	Great Britain Hostels: - Owned by LA - Outside HRA in England - In or outside HRA in Wales and Scotland	LA	HRA and/or Non HRA rent rebate	100% subsidy up to level of rent	023 (non HRA in England and Wales and HRA in Scotland) or 060 (HRA in Wales)
12	Great Britain Exempt accommodation	Housing Association, Non metropolitan county council in England etc	Rent Allowance	TA subsidy rules do not apply Treated separately for subsidy purposes	096, 097 and 098

Referring rents to a Rent Officer

4. As this scheme relates only to HB subsidy, there remains some flexibility in these cases as to the level of rent that will be met by HB, i.e. the eligible rent. It is also a reason for having cells in the Subsidy Claim Form that record ‘expenditure above the cap’. The existing HB regulations when the landlord is a registered housing association remain unchanged. These cases continue to be treated as ‘excluded’ rent allowance cases for HB purposes (see below). However, the Department did provide guidance in May 2010, HB/CTB Circular S4/2010, advising LAs to use the maximum subsidy amounts in this scheme as a benchmark for considering whether or not the rent is unreasonably high. That guidance is essentially repeated here, for ease of reference.

5. Under Schedule 2 paragraph 3 of the HB Regulations 2006, the relevant LA is not required to apply to a Rent Officer for a determination in relation to a registered housing association tenancy except in a situation where the LA considers that the:

claimant occupies a dwelling larger than is reasonably required by the claimant and any others who occupy that dwelling (including any non-dependants of the claimant and any person paying rent to the claimant), or
rent payable for that dwelling is unreasonably high

See The Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/213)

6. This means that a tenancy with a registered housing association as the landlord is ‘excluded’ from mainstream LHA rules or, as was the case pre-LHA, mandatory Rent Officer referral. It also means that the rent does not have to be referred simply because it is high, or higher than for similar properties. It must be unreasonably high before a referral needs to be made.

7. A referral is also required if the authority considers that the accommodation is larger than is reasonably required by the claimant and any others who may occupy the dwelling. In such circumstances the authority should have regard to the circumstances and housing options available to the individual household.

8. In relation to a profit-making registered provider of social housing, the above provision exempting tenancies from Rent Officer referral only applies to the provider’s social housing. All other housing would be subject to the local housing allowance.

What is reasonable?

9. As every authority is given discretion under the regulations, you should not have a blanket policy of either referral or non-referral of registered housing association cases. However, uniform procedures for assessment of each case should be put in place for staff to follow, backed up by training and written guidance in order to achieve consistency and fairness.

10. The DWP believes that the formulae for calculating maximum subsidy in cases subject to this scheme, along with the upper cap limits, provides sufficient resources to meet the reasonable costs of the leasing obligations to the landlord. Therefore, the LA should have regard to these figures when deciding whether or not a referral is required.

11. The LA should make an informed decision about whether the rent is appropriate given the circumstances of a particular case. It may be reasonable to agree a rent that is higher than will be recouped through subsidy. Conversely, when the actual costs of leasing and managing property are lower than the maximum subsidy amount, it would be reasonable to expect the rent level to reflect this lower amount.

Treatment of HB following referral to a Rent Officer

12. If a tenancy of a registered housing association is referred to the Rent Officer because the accommodation is too large or the rent unreasonably high, then the maximum rent rules apply to the determination of the eligible rent. HB is then payable up to the eligible rent.

13. For HB subsidy purposes, the amount payable in these cases continues to be the lowest of the:

weekly HB entitlement (the amount paid to the customer for the week or part week, as the case may be)
maximum weekly subsidy amount, or
upper cap limit of £375 or £500

The following examples use specific locations for illustrative purposes only

Subsidy Treatment - Example 1 - Rent Officer referral for HAL tenancy (Central London)

6 room property (4 bedrooms). Central London BRMA.

Leased by registered housing association as part of HAL scheme.

Rent is set at £1000 per week.

It is April 2011 and LA decides to refer rent to the Rent Officer.

Rent Officer Determination for the property is £700.

Maximum rent is therefore £700.

weekly HB entitlement (claimant on full HB) = £700
maximum weekly subsidy amount is 4 bed LHA (£1,150) – 10% (£115) = £1,035
upper cap limit = £500

Subsidy payable is the lowest of the three = £500 (Expenditure above the cap = £200)

Subsidy Treatment - Example 2 - Rent Officer referral for HAL tenancy (Aberdeen City)

4 room property (3 bedrooms). Aberdeen and Shire BRMA

Leased by registered housing association as part of HAL scheme.

Rent is set at £200 per week.

It is April 2011 and LA decides to refer rent to the Rent Officer.

Rent Officer Determination for the property is £160.

Maximum rent is therefore £160.

weekly HB entitlement (claimant on full HB) = £160
maximum weekly subsidy amount is 3 bed LHA (£173.08) – 10% (£17.31) = £155.77
upper cap limit = £375

Subsidy payable is lowest of the three = £155.77. (Expenditure is above the 2011 LHA level.)

Key definitions

Registered Housing Association

14. The definition of a registered housing association has been updated. The term ‘registered housing association’ has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006. ‘Registered housing association’ means a:

private registered provider of social housing, as defined by the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008. These bodies (formerly known as Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)) are registered with the Tenant Services Authority, the regulator of social housing in England
housing association which is registered in a register maintained by Welsh Ministers under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996, or
housing association which is registered by Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 57(3)(b) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001

15. In England, instead of having Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) there are now two types of Private Registered Providers (PRPs) of social housing: those that are non profit-making (effectively the same as previous RSLs); and those that are profit-making (this could be, for example, a private rented sector landlord that has some social housing stock and is registered with the regulator).

16. For ease, registered housing associations have also been referred to as RSLs in some sections of this guidance.

Exempt accommodation

17. Exempt accommodation cases dealt with under the pre-1996 rules (including those placed under homelessness legislation) are described as those where the accommodation is provided by a:

housing association
registered charity
voluntary organisation, or
non-metropolitan county council in England,

that is also:

the landlord, and
they, or someone on their behalf, provides care, support or supervision, to meet their tenant’s needs

18. These homes are exempt from both the maximum rent and LHA methods of working out the eligible rent. These rent allowance cases rely on the pre-1996 system of rent restriction and its allied subsidy rules.

Board and lodging accommodation

19. ‘Board and lodging accommodation’ means:

(a) accommodation provided for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which are both cooked or prepared and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises, or

(b) accommodation provided in a hotel, guest house, lodging house or some similar establishment,

but it does not include accommodation in a residential care home or nursing home within the meaning of regulation 19(3) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 nor in a hostel within the meaning of Regulation 14 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, Regulation 14 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations.

Self-contained accommodation

20. Accommodation is self-contained if the claimant’s household is not required to share one or more of the following with another household

kitchen
bathroom, or
toilet

Licensed accommodation

21. Generally, accommodation will be held on licence (rather than a lease) in circumstances where the local housing authority has occupation rights in respect of homeless persons but does not have the right to exclusive occupation for a defined term on payment of rent. This is likely to be accommodation which the authority has agreement to use on a nightly, weekly or monthly basis to accommodate potentially homeless people.

22. From April 2011, for Housing Benefit subsidy purposes, ‘licensed’ accommodation is referred to in the legislation as: ‘accommodation which the authority has a right to use under an agreement, other than a lease, with a third party’.

In the case of items 4 and 5, when a payment for the week of the final determination or redetermination has already been made when the rent officer’s decision is received, Local Authorities (LAs) may use one of the following, as the effective date for subsidy purposes, the:
- date of the determination, or
- following Monday
↩
Referral must be made if the authority considers (one of the following):
- accommodation is over-large for the claimant’s reasonable housing needs, or
- rent for the accommodation is unreasonably high
↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴
Applies only to accommodation acquired by an RSL, the purpose of which is to be used as homelessness accommodation. ↩

Event		Effective date
1	New claims	The date entitlement starts or, when the 13 week rule applies, from the 14th benefit week of entitlement
2	Change of circumstances	Effective date of change
3	Final determination higher than IRL	The same as in 1 above
4	Final determination lower than IRL	The same as in 1 above
5	Redetermination lower than original determination	Date of redetermination or following Monday^{[footnote 1]}
6	Redetermination higher than determination	Date of original determination, that is whichever original date is appropriate under 1 to 3 above

Appendices A to G

Appendix A – Summary of 2020 to 2021 benefit subsidy arrangements

Appendix B – Effective dates of rent officers’ determination

At the 52 week review

Appendix C – Subsidy arrangements for hostel accommodation

Appendix D – Administration Subsidy distribution for 2020 to 2021

Appendix E – Additional Administration Subsidy for 2020 to 2021

Appendix F – Amounts for rent rebate subsidy deduction calculation for LAs in Wales 2020 to 2021

Appendix G – Subsidy arrangements for Temporary Accommodation

Calculating subsidy

Cases subject to Articles 17 to 17C

Cases which are not subject to Articles 17 to 17C

Referring rents to a Rent Officer

What is reasonable?

Treatment of HB following referral to a Rent Officer

Subsidy Treatment - Example 1 - Rent Officer referral for HAL tenancy (Central London)

Subsidy Treatment - Example 2 - Rent Officer referral for HAL tenancy (Aberdeen City)

Key definitions

Registered Housing Association

Exempt accommodation

Board and lodging accommodation

Self-contained accommodation

Licensed accommodation

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Local authority - England	Final 2020 to 2021 DWP HB administration subsidy allocation (£)
Adur	150,367
Allerdale	246,316
Amber Valley	290,209
Arun	396,049
Ashfield	374,829
Ashford	302,120
Aylesbury Vale	370,994
Babergh	172,792
Barking and Dagenham	917,155
Barnet	1,337,004
Barnsley	758,072
Barrow-In-Furness	199,946
Basildon	535,491
Basingstoke and Deane	369,600
Bassetlaw	285,538
Bath and North East Somerset	383,364
Bedford	422,263
Bexley	629,218
Birmingham	4,642,157
Blaby	145,612
Blackburn with Darwen	458,690
Blackpool	763,094
Bolsover	226,962
Bolton	986,694
Boston	199,986
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	1,102,050
Bracknell Forest	256,491
Bradford	1,676,907
Braintree	336,195
Breckland	312,349
Brent	1,646,812
Brentwood	123,017
Brighton and Hove	1,017,419
Bristol	1,557,960
Broadland	199,992
Bromley	781,742
Bromsgrove	148,430
Broxbourne	254,475
Broxtowe	236,440
Burnley	321,797
Bury	520,026
Calderdale	592,638
Cambridge	310,922
Camden	1,352,260
Cannock Chase	265,113
Canterbury	366,107
Carlisle	280,103
Castle Point	184,165
Central Bedfordshire	524,652
Charnwood	305,516
Chelmsford	351,735
Cheltenham	255,124
Cherwell	289,981
Cheshire East	736,687
Cheshire West and Chester	792,665
Chesterfield	362,417
Chichester	268,517
Chiltern	152,085
Chorley	233,629
City of London	55,236
Colchester	442,472
Copeland	189,395
Corby	214,239
Cornwall	1,712,514
Cotswold	163,937
Coventry	1,090,123
Craven	89,741
Crawley	386,890
Croydon	1,373,653
Dacorum	404,945
Darlington	370,311
Dartford	236,897
Daventry	131,685
Derby	791,272
Derbyshire Dales	128,248
Doncaster	947,638
Dorset	838,048
Dover	323,579
Dudley	890,787
Durham	1,927,717
Ealing	1,420,198
East Cambridgeshire	171,429
East Devon	283,006
East Hampshire	198,330
East Hertfordshire	274,163
East Lindsey	444,683
East Northamptonshire	169,121
East Riding of Yorkshire	734,897
East Staffordshire	264,845
East Suffolk	597,953
Eastbourne	359,653
Eastleigh	223,536
Eden	86,989
Elmbridge	256,694
Enfield	1,575,250
Epping Forest	290,901
Epsom and Ewell	133,441
Erewash	270,610
Exeter	345,472
Fareham	172,667
Fenland	277,475
Folkestone and Hythe	347,438
Forest of Dean	190,688
Fylde	184,049
Gateshead	786,987
Gedling	264,480
Gloucester	364,220
Gosport	264,558
Gravesham	284,618
Great Yarmouth	355,653
Greenwich	1,394,075
Guildford	265,671
Hackney	2,055,067
Halton	445,520
Hambleton	156,539
Hammersmith and Fulham	955,842
Harborough	108,918
Haringey	1,490,578
Harlow	322,121
Harrogate	256,090
Harrow	748,834
Hart	110,946
Hartlepool	407,491
Hastings	389,046
Havant	288,482
Havering	619,786
Herefordshire	435,805
Hertsmere	270,166
High Peak	214,674
Hillingdon	920,187
Hinckley and Bosworth	174,634
Horsham	222,722
Hounslow	879,688
Huntingdonshire	344,892
Hyndburn	274,531
Ipswich	470,493
Isle of Wight	443,081
Isles of Scilly	1,832
Islington	1,492,199
Kensington and Chelsea	852,115
Kettering	234,857
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk	377,811
Kingston upon Hull	1,310,532
Kingston upon Thames	403,440
Kirklees	1,175,933
Knowsley	686,930
Lambeth	1,925,074
Lancaster	335,068
Leeds	2,681,762
Leicester	1,263,825
Lewes	250,053
Lewisham	1,736,411
Lichfield	172,071
Lincoln	344,639
Liverpool	2,428,167
Luton	670,849
Maidstone	366,614
Maldon	122,054
Malvern Hills	163,017
Manchester	2,513,685
Mansfield	348,245
Medway	773,446
Melton	83,238
Mendip	243,150
Merton	559,165
Mid Devon	173,004
Mid Suffolk	157,242
Mid Sussex	223,602
Middlesbrough	723,249
Milton Keynes	840,829
Mole Valley	162,000
New Forest	334,480
Newark And Sherwood	265,296
Newcastle-under-Lyme	311,345
Newcastle upon Tyne	1,154,038
Newham	1,529,773
North Devon	255,773
North East Derbyshire	251,887
North East Lincolnshire	551,375
North Hertfordshire	311,264
North Kesteven	202,084
North Lincolnshire	435,234
North Norfolk	260,329
North Somerset	527,317
North Tyneside	716,996
North Warwickshire	137,797
North West Leicestershire	182,213
Northampton	637,504
Northumberland	949,638
Norwich	626,741
Nottingham	1,404,973
Nuneaton And Bedworth	335,601
Oadby and Wigston	87,624
Oldham	759,383
Oxford	420,426
Pendle	283,264
Peterborough	623,299
Plymouth	934,925
Portsmouth	892,436
Preston	437,640
Reading	529,166
Redbridge	797,763
Redcar and Cleveland	541,882
Redditch	220,890
Reigate And Banstead	280,797
Ribble Valley	78,170
Richmondshire	78,160
Richmond upon Thames	415,494
Rochdale	803,016
Rochford	137,452
Rossendale	188,614
Rother	213,537
Rotherham	896,184
Rugby	201,588
Runnymede	173,250
Rushcliffe	163,743
Rushmoor	275,752
Rutland	53,397
Ryedale	101,589
Salford	1,088,866
Sandwell	1,296,706
Scarborough	370,953
Sedgemoor	272,426
Sefton	879,672
Selby	154,861
Sevenoaks	228,978
Sheffield	1,989,349
Shropshire	646,303
Slough	488,681
Solihull	480,099
Somerset West and Taunton	371,173
South Buckinghamshire	113,917
South Cambridgeshire	236,155
South Derbyshire	174,914
South Gloucestershire	552,532
South Hams	190,278
South Holland	191,100
South Kesteven	284,513
South Lakeland	169,831
South Norfolk	239,909
South Northamptonshire	118,463
South Oxfordshire	216,555
South Ribble	207,017
South Somerset	361,957
South Staffordshire	205,934
South Tyneside	732,093
Southampton	859,153
Southend on Sea	607,291
Southwark	1,684,144
Spelthorne	217,487
St Albans	243,713
St Helens	619,934
Stafford	251,158
Staffordshire Moorlands	163,450
Stevenage	293,959
Stockport	711,707
Stockton on Tees	648,353
Stoke on Trent	950,909
Stratford-on-Avon	231,831
Stroud	218,784
Sunderland	1,227,991
Surrey Heath	138,525
Sutton	513,943
Swale	399,813
Swindon	500,967
Tameside	805,342
Tamworth	189,284
Tandridge	158,538
Teignbridge	313,687
Telford and Wrekin	611,576
Tendring	491,693
Test Valley	229,928
Tewkesbury	161,818
Thanet	545,539
Three Rivers	181,806
Thurrock	457,765
Tonbridge and Malling	268,028
Torbay	549,714
Torridge	166,530
Tower Hamlets	1,871,818
Trafford	525,459
Tunbridge Wells	255,210
Uttlesford	124,942
Vale of White Horse	210,950
Wakefield	1,183,847
Walsall	1,043,587
Waltham Forest	1,064,535
Wandsworth	1,310,080
Warrington	457,379
Warwick	266,446
Watford	267,817
Waverley	229,532
Wealden	256,426
Wellingborough	219,663
Welwyn Hatfield	310,995
West Berkshire	302,336
West Devon	125,192
West Lancashire	254,998
West Lindsey	237,090
West Oxfordshire	185,311
West Suffolk	377,206
Westminster	1,241,098
Wigan	949,692
Wiltshire	947,671
Winchester	222,378
Windsor and Maidenhead	268,361
Wirral	1,148,083
Woking	203,412
Wokingham	178,394
Wolverhampton	1,025,129
Worcester	277,778
Worthing	269,642
Wychavon	257,825
Wycombe	351,106
Wyre	302,221
Wyre Forest	298,029
York	373,437
Total	167,690,027

Local authority - England	Additional 2020 to 2021 DWP HB administration subsidy allocation (£)
Adur	14,390
Allerdale	11,800
Amber Valley	21,312
Arun	33,451
Ashfield	46,143
Ashford	23,567
Babergh	9,138
Barking and Dagenham	147,260
Barnet	157,511
Barnsley	60,407
Barrow-in-Furness	25,354
Basildon	41,273
Basingstoke and Deane	19,445
Bassetlaw	19,765
Bath and North East Somerset	13,433
Bedford	26,795
Bexley	64,596
Birmingham	686,995
Blaby	6,964
Blackburn with Darwen	44,936
Blackpool	117,354
Bolsover	18,704
Bolton	112,762
Boston	23,148
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	81,343
Bracknell Forest	12,900
Bradford	197,668
Braintree	18,442
Breckland	23,460
Brent	354,452
Brentwood	4,863
Brighton and Hove	122,412
Bristol	236,495
Broadland	13,805
Bromley	71,376
Bromsgrove	8,160
Broxbourne	19,723
Broxtowe	16,316
Buckinghamshire	59,006
Burnley	28,067
Bury	41,407
Calderdale	38,672
Cambridge	35,035
Camden	176,833
Cannock Chase	27,393
Canterbury	32,187
Carlisle	23,909
Castle Point	13,434
Central Bedfordshire	38,821
Charnwood	21,133
Chelmsford	33,096
Cheltenham	17,391
Cherwell	16,212
Cheshire East	35,750
Cheshire West and Chester	45,820
Chesterfield	29,787
Chichester	17,605
Chorley	16,975
City of London	2,019
Colchester	45,583
Copeland	11,483
Corby	13,251
Cornwall	158,243
Cotswold	5,583
Durham	135,384
Coventry	144,852
Craven	2,563
Crawley	36,946
Croydon	99,352
Dacorum	31,555
Darlington	29,672
Dartford	21,028
Daventry	4,349
Derby	101,628
Derbyshire Dales	7,623
Doncaster	79,249
Dorset	45,232
Dover	18,707
Dudley	54,508
Ealing	190,025
East Cambridgeshire	10,149
East Devon	20,306
East Hampshire	10,880
East Hertfordshire	14,498
East Lindsey	40,174
East Northamptonshire	9,498
East Riding of Yorkshire	39,823
East Staffordshire	27,631
East Suffolk	33,406
Eastbourne	29,252
Eastleigh	7,721
Eden	6,011
Elmbridge	16,681
Enfield	233,693
Epping Forest	27,959
Epsom and Ewell	8,834
Erewash	15,635
Exeter	40,054
Fareham	10,091
Fenland	29,269
Folkestone and Hythe	32,581
Forest of Dean	9,968
Fylde	13,686
Gateshead	52,739
Gedling	23,642
Gloucester	35,875
Gosport	27,817
Gravesham	25,489
Great Yarmouth	20,881
Greenwich	190,451
Guildford	19,219
Hackney	457,744
Halton	28,272
Hambleton	4,270
Hammersmith and Fulham	67,097
Harborough	3,147
Haringey	358,530
Harlow	23,478
Harrogate	7,280
Harrow	81,917
Hart	4,627
Hartlepool	25,139
Hastings	34,749
Havant	28,125
Havering	60,460
Herefordshire	33,183
Hertsmere	20,056
High Peak	18,545
Hillingdon	111,534
Hinckley and Bosworth	6,650
Horsham	12,124
Hounslow	55,143
Huntingdonshire	23,225
Hyndburn	23,050
Ipswich	51,495
Isle of Wight	45,317
Isles of Scilly	693
Islington	211,859
Kensington and Chelsea	87,939
Kettering	22,129
King’s Lynn and West Norfolk	40,950
Kingston upon Hull	234,321
Kingston upon Thames	30,802
Kirklees	89,924
Knowsley	84,967
Lambeth	205,219
Lancaster	17,021
Leeds	343,837
Leicester	174,821
Lewes	22,043
Lewisham	217,431
Lichfield	8,322
Lincoln	37,150
Liverpool	388,361
Luton	138,000
Maidstone	37,952
Maldon	9,948
Malvern Hills	11,721
Manchester	350,368
Mansfield	45,139
Medway	80,385
Melton	2,616
Mendip	10,314
Merton	40,201
Mid Devon	12,507
Mid Suffolk	7,418
Mid Sussex	10,901
Middlesbrough	108,373
Milton Keynes	104,360
Mole Valley	10,584
New Forest	20,060
Newark and Sherwood	20,927
Newcastle upon Tyne	79,722
Newcastle-under-Lyme	31,732
Newham	389,699
North Devon	22,678
North East Derbyshire	15,559
North East Lincolnshire	43,650
North Hertfordshire	19,072
North Kesteven	10,472
North Lincolnshire	24,302
North Norfolk	26,796
North Somerset	28,039
North Tyneside	46,429
North Warwickshire	7,867
North West Leicestershire	9,801
Northampton	93,642
Northumberland	81,907
Norwich	89,127
Nottingham	254,323
Nuneaton and Bedworth	23,768
Oadby and Wigston	5,827
Oldham	57,171
Oxford	32,785
Pendle	30,801
Peterborough	63,222
Plymouth	85,523
Portsmouth	125,855
Preston	45,396
Reading	39,161
Redbridge	131,912
Redcar and Cleveland	63,782
Redditch	14,083
Reigate and Banstead	20,232
Ribble Valley	3,252
Richmond upon Thames	21,156
Richmondshire	1,966
Rochdale	83,708
Rochford	6,319
Rossendale	16,888
Rother	11,173
Rotherham	85,029
Rugby	5,749
Runnymede	13,722
Rushcliffe	8,057
Rushmoor	22,771
Rutland	1,464
Ryedale	2,939
Salford	148,831
Sandwell	170,650
Scarborough	33,170
Sedgemoor	11,017
Sefton	66,833
Selby	6,874
Sevenoaks	15,649
Sheffield	279,306
Shropshire	41,699
Slough	58,238
Solihull	27,283
Somerset West and Taunton	16,431
South Cambridgeshire	13,020
South Derbyshire	15,077
South Gloucestershire	35,743
South Hams	11,747
South Holland	13,891
South Kesteven	13,401
South Lakeland	11,209
South Norfolk	16,897
South Northamptonshire	5,860
South Oxfordshire	7,472
South Ribble	11,287
South Somerset	17,425
South Staffordshire	9,180
South Tyneside	65,902
Southampton	70,980
Southend-on-Sea	48,401
Southwark	120,203
Spelthorne	20,119
St Albans	9,515
St. Helens	58,674
Stafford	18,558
Staffordshire Moorlands	10,235
Stevenage	26,989
Stockport	62,246
Stockton-on-Tees	56,645
Stoke-on-Trent	121,108
Stratford-on-Avon	8,336
Stroud	9,365
Sunderland	113,709
Surrey Heath	8,581
Sutton	20,508
Swale	35,443
Swindon	26,562
Tameside	69,544
Tamworth	11,866
Tandridge	8,115
Teignbridge	24,830
Telford and Wrekin	78,449
Tendring	50,159
Test Valley	11,009
Tewkesbury	6,958
Thanet	41,991
Three Rivers	7,876
Thurrock	29,593
Tonbridge and Malling	19,915
Torbay	66,420
Torridge	14,256
Tower Hamlets	260,046
Trafford	26,188
Tunbridge Wells	20,168
Uttlesford	4,801
Vale of White Horse	7,721
Wakefield	152,209
Walsall	113,461
Waltham Forest	208,117
Wandsworth	138,294
Warrington	23,956
Warwick	18,555
Watford	21,064
Waverley	10,584
Wealden	13,686
Wellingborough	24,953
Welwyn Hatfield	16,104
West Berkshire	11,486
West Devon	9,295
West Lancashire	13,754
West Lindsey	16,910
West Oxfordshire	6,090
West Suffolk	23,436
Westminster	187,033
Wigan	68,441
Wiltshire	41,994
Winchester	9,836
Windsor and Maidenhead	12,578
Wirral	93,986
Woking	15,962
Wokingham	5,027
Wolverhampton	97,170
Worcester	30,587
Worthing	26,760
Wychavon	20,114
Wyre	26,673
Wyre Forest	27,069
York	17,357
Total - England	17,355,162

Local Authority	Specified amount ‘O’	Guideline rent increase ‘P’
Caerphilly	91.72	4.05
Cardiff	102.98	4.44
Carmarthenshire	91.24	4.05
Denbighshire	88.96	4.10
Flintshire	92.37	4.17
Isle of Anglesey	88.11	4.09
Pembrokeshire	92.19	3.90
Powys	93.08	4.07
Swansea	90.10	4.15
Vale of Glamorgan	99.69	4.25
Wrexham	91.34	4.11

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Appendix A – Summary of 2020 to 2021 benefit subsidy arrangements

Appendix B – Effective dates of rent officers’ determination

At the 52 week review

Appendix C – Subsidy arrangements for hostel accommodation

Appendix D – Administration Subsidy distribution for 2020 to 2021

Appendix E – Additional Administration Subsidy for 2020 to 2021

Appendix F – Amounts for rent rebate subsidy deduction calculation for LAs in Wales 2020 to 2021

Appendix G – Subsidy arrangements for Temporary Accommodation

Calculating subsidy

Cases subject to Articles 17 to 17C

Cases which are not subject to Articles 17 to 17C

Referring rents to a Rent Officer

What is reasonable?

Treatment of HB following referral to a Rent Officer

Subsidy Treatment - Example 1 - Rent Officer referral for HAL tenancy (Central London)

Subsidy Treatment - Example 2 - Rent Officer referral for HAL tenancy (Aberdeen City)

Key definitions

Registered Housing Association

Exempt accommodation

Board and lodging accommodation

Self-contained accommodation

Licensed accommodation

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