FOI request (FOIR-694886214)

Suspending claims for housing benefit for supported housing providers

Requested Tue 11 March 2025
Responded Fri 28 March 2025

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information:

1. Confirmation as to whether this council has at any point in the last 12 months suspended claims for housing benefit from a supported housing provider.

2. A list of the supported housing providers the council suspended claims for housing benefit from.

3. A breakdown of the reasons for suspending claims for housing benefit from those supported housing providers.

4. A timeline of when these suspensions happened.

Response

NOTICE OF REFUSAL

The information requested would require us to manually check each customer records to ascertain if there has been any suspended claims. This would far exceed the time limit set out by the Information Commissioner. S12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000 provides an exemption from the obligation to comply with a request for information if the estimated costs of complying with that request would exceed the prescribed appropriate limit.

We estimate that the costs of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit by a significant amount.

For this reason we feel unable to comply with this part of your request.