Dataset: Housing Benefit claimants

Field: Removal of Spare Room Subsidy Indicator

Description

The Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (RSRS) indicator denotes whether the Housing Benefit claimant is receiving a reduction in their Housing Benefit due to the RSRS. It is derived from source data on the weekly amount of reduction due to the RSRS, where a positive numerical amount indicates a weekly reduction.

This applies to working age claimants in the Social Rented Sector who are not subject to an exemption and who are assessed as having too many bedrooms according to their need as set out by the social sector size criteria. Working age is defined as those who are below the state pension age.

Classification

Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy indicator is applicable to: All claimants

- Reduction applied

- No reduction applied

- Not applicable – private rented

- Not available prior to May 2013

Total number of categories: 4

Quality Statement

Collation of data returns from Local Authorities on the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy via the Single Housing Benefit Extract (SHBE) began in April 2013. An insufficient number of Local Authorities returned accurate data on the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy to release April 2013 data. Although data was of sufficient quality to release from May 2013, please note a small number of Local Authorities continued to provide incomplete data.