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    • FOI request (FOI-94619194)

      Universal Credit

      Requested Tue 06 November 2018
      Responded Tue 13 November 2018

       

      Please could you provide me with the following information:

      1. The number of households who presented themselves to the council as homeless while claiming Universal Credit in

      a.2015

      b.2016

      c.2017

      d.2018

      2. If known, how many of the people in the answer to 1) were previously

      i.  housing association tenants

      ii. private tenants

      iii. local authority tenants

      3. If the council has housing stock, how many of its tenants evicted since November 2015 were in receipt of Universal Credit at the time they were evicted
      4. If the council has housing stock, how many of its tenants are claiming Universal Credit as of 06/11/18
      5. How many of the claimants in the answer to 4) are currently subject to UC debt deductions
      6. How many of the claimants in the answer to 4) are known to be in rent arrears
      7, If known, the number of households who are not local authority tenants who have been evicted since November 2015 while claiming Universal Credit by
      i. housing associations
      ii. private landlords
      8 The amount of Discretionary Housing Payment provided for working age Universal Credit claimants as a proportion of the council’s total DHP spending in

      i.  2015/16

      ii.  2016/17

      iii. 2017/18

      iv. 2018/19


      Response

       

      Q1 - Information not held

      Q2 - Information not held

      Q3 & 4 - Hastings Borough Council do not own any housing stock, this was transferred to 1066 Housing Association (now Optivo) in 1996 as part of a Large Scale Voluntary Transfer (LSVT)

      Q5 & 6 - N/A

      Q7 - Information not held

      Q8 -

      i. 2015/16 - 0.00%

      ii. 2016/17 - 0.13%

      iii. 2017/18 - 17.79%

      iv. 2018/19 (to date) - 31.59%

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