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<p>Providing the requested information would incur disproportionate costs to the Department
due to the resource required to resolve data quality issues on exempt accommodation,
which is a particular type of supported housing.</p><p><em> </em></p><p>Department
for Work and Pensions (DWP) is working to resolve a historical data quality issue
in relation to how supported housing status is captured on Housing Benefit claims.
The resulting fix will be for new claims and will not address historic claims.</p><p>
</p><p>In 2022, DWP made investments to deliver improvements to local authority (LA)
IT systems, to accurately record all new Housing Benefit claims. This has substantially
improved data quality for new claims. DWP have also taken action to improve data on
existing claims. LAs have received funding to review their Housing Benefit caseload
and set the supported housing status accurately by 31<sup>st</sup> March 2024.</p><p>
</p><p>The Departments’ analysts will then make a final assessment of these case reviews
in Summer 2024, once they have received the full relevant data set, and will determine
whether it is sufficiently robust to support quantification of the scale and cost
of specified accommodation.</p>
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