Dataset: Housing Benefit claimants

Field: Weekly Spare Room Reduction Amount (bands)

Description

Weekly spare room reduction amount refers to the weekly amount of reduction in Housing Benefit due to the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy. It is taken from source data. It is the amount that the eligible rent including ineligible service charges is reduced by for those HB claimants under occupying their accommodation in the Social Rented Sector and not excluded from the social sector size criteria restrictions.

Classification

Weekly Spare Room Reduction Amount (bands) is applicable to: All claimants

- Up to £4.99

- £5 to £9.99

- £10 to £14.99

- £15 to £19.99

- £20 to £24.99

- £25 and above

- No reduction applied

- Not applicable prior to May 2013

Number of categories: 8

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. However the earliest information available through Stat-Xplore is the May 2013 SHBE data return, due to data quality issues with the April 2013 data return.