In 2024/25 the government of the United Kingdom is expected to spend approximately *****billion British pounds on housing benefits, compared with *****billion in the previous year.

As of 2023, over 404,600 low-income households in Finland received general housing allowance payments. This was the highest number of general housing allowance recipients over the observed period. Starting from August 2017, students were transferred to the general housing allowance. The general housing allowance is intended to help low-income households with their living costs. Assistance with housing costs is available for rental, right-of-occupancy, part-ownership and owner-occupied homes located in Finland.

This data sets out levels of support with housing costs, known as the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate, for 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22. The Allowance is set for different property sizes in each Broad Rental Market Area, or BRMA. These are not the same as county or district areas. You can find out more about BRMAs here. The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) completes a six-monthly survey of private rents across England which is used to set the LHA rates. However in 2016-17, many rates were frozen at 2015-16 levels due to national austerity measures. Since then, selected BRMAs have had their LHA rates adjusted, despite the general freeze. In 2020/21 rates were increased up to a set maximum to help mitigate the effects of the covid-19 pandemic, so LHAs would support a higher level rent than previously. For 2021-22 LHA rates have been held at the same level as 2020-21. The data comes from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and is available online at www.gov.uk. Individuals should seek advice about their individual claims from their local authority benefit team. The VOA provides a search facility to help applicants identify the relevant LHA for them. This search is based on postcode and property size and can be found at http://lha-direct.voa.gov.uk/search.aspx.

This data sets out levels of support with housing costs, known as the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate, for 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2019-19 and 2019-20

The Allowance is set for different property sizes in each Broad Rental Market Area, or BRMA. These are not the same as county or district areas.

The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) completes a six-monthly survey of private rents across England which is used to set the LHA rates. However in 2016-17, many rates were frozen at 2015-16 levels due to national austerity measures. Since them, selected BRMAs have had their LHA rates adjusted, despite the general freeze.

The data comes from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and is available online at www.gov.uk. Individuals should seek advice about their individual claims from their local authority benefit team. The VOA provides a search facility to help applicants identify the relevant LHA for them. This search is based on postcode and property size and can be found at http://lha-direct.voa.gov.uk/search.aspx.

This indicator presents figures on the amount of public spending on housing allowances across OECD countries. Housing allowances are means- and/or income-tested income transfers to households directed at supporting households in meeting their housing costs (Kemp 2007, OECD 2016, Stephens et al 2011). Housing allowances are a form of demand-side support generally provided to low-income households who meet the relevant eligibility criteria (OECD, 2016) to help meet rental and other housing costs, temporarily or on a long-term basis. Although such schemes are commonly called housing allowances, they are also known as “housing benefits” (in the United Kingdom), “rent assistance” (Australia), “rent supplement” (Ireland, New Zealand), or “housing vouchers” (United States). The introduction of new housing allowances or modifications to existing housing allowance schemes in response to the COVID19 pandemic can be found in indicator PH3.2.

The one-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit helped low-income renters with the cost of renting. To be eligible for the tax-free one-time payment of $500, applicants must have filed their 2021 income tax return. They must have had a 2021 adjusted family net income of $35,000 or less for families, or $20,000 or less for individuals, and paid at least 30% of their 2021 adjusted family net income towards rent in the 2022 calendar year. These tables contain statistics by province, age, gender, adjusted family net income, family type and forward sortation area.

This data sets out levels of support with housing costs, known as the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rate, and compares this to the contractual rent to identify weekly shortfalls in Housing Benefit provision. This dataset has been collated in July 2022 by Leicester City Council’s Revenues and Customer Support team.

The City of Kingston, as Service Manager, oversees the social housing system for the Kingston and Frontenac service area, and is responsible for maintaining rent-geared-to-income (RGI) units which are secured through traditional funding agreements with local non-profit housing providers and private landlords as well as through Portable Housing Benefits (PHB). RGI units and PHB benefits are accessed by households through a centralized waiting list (CWL) which is maintained by the City of Kingston’s Social Housing Registry (the Registry). This dataset includes the number of active applicants on the CWL, which is drawn from the Registry. If you have any questions, please contact theregistry@cityofkingston.caSocial housing is a type of government-supported housing. It provides lower-cost rental units or a housing allowance to households with low-to-moderate incomes. Social housing is governed by the Housing Services Act, 2011 (https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/11h06). All providers are requested to comply with the Social Housing Directives (https://www.cityofkingston.ca/community-supports/housing-and-homelessness/social-housing/social-housing-directives/). For more information, please refer to the City of Kingston website: Social Housing | City of Kingston (https://www.cityofkingston.ca/community-supports/housing-and-homelessness/social-housing/)

The one-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit helped low-income renters with the cost of renting. To be eligible for the tax-free one-time payment of $500, applicants must have filed their 2021 income tax return. They must have had a 2021 adjusted family net income of $35,000 or less for families, or $20,000 or less for individuals, and paid at least 30% of their 2021 adjusted family net income towards rent in the 2022 calendar year. These tables contain statistics by province, age, gender, adjusted family net income, family type and forward sortation area.

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In 2024/25 the UK government is expected to spend approximately ******billion British pounds on benefits, compared with the previous year when benefit expenditure was ******billion pounds.

In Eurostat database, ESSPROS data on expenditure and receipts, data on net social protection benefits, data on Pension beneficiaries and data on Unemployment benefits recipients for the total of schemes are currently disseminated. The qualitative information is available in the dedicated "Social protection" section of the Eurostat website. ESSPROS data, quality reports and the qualitative information are released annually.

There are three main categories of data sources:

• administrative data
• national accounts and other estimates
• surveys/census.

Most of the countries report administrative data and register-based data as their main data sources.

Data on expenditure and receipts correspond to two collections "EXPEND" (Social protection expenditure) and "RECEIPTS" (Social protection receipts).

The collection "EXPEND" is structured in twelve tables:

1. spr_exp_type – The data include the expenditure broken down by social benefits, administration costs and other expenditure.
2. spr_exp_func – The data include the expenditure on social benefits classified by functions of social protection. Early estimates for social protection expenditure broken down by function are also included in this table.
3. spr_exp_pens – The data include the social benefits relating to pensions (old age, disability, survivors and unemployment pensions). In addition, the data are split between means-tested and non-means-tested benefits.
4. spr_exp_ftm – The data include expenditure on social benefits by function, type of benefits and means-testing.
5. spr_exp_fsi – The data include expenditure on the sickness and healthcare function by type of benefit and means-testing.
6. spr_exp_fdi – The data include the expenditure on disability function by type of benefit and means-testing.
7. spr_exp_fol – The data include the expenditure on old age function by type of benefit and means-testing.
8. spr_exp_fsu – The data include expenditure on survivors’ function by type of benefit and means-testing.
9. spr_exp_ffa – The data include expenditure on family/children function by type of benefit and means-testing.
10. spr_exp_fun – The data include expenditure on unemployment function by type of benefit and means-testing.
11. spr_exp_fho – The data include expenditure on housing function by type of benefit.
12. spr_exp_fex – The data include expenditure on social exclusion n.e.c function by type of benefit and means-testing.

Data on expenditure are made available in the following units: million euro, million euro at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), euro per inhabitant, euro per inhabitant at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million units of national currency, million units of national currency at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million pps, million pps per inhabitant, percentage of GDP. Depending on the table, the data can also be expressed as percentage of expenditure, percentage of total benefits or percentage of a given function.

Whenever applied, the split of social protection benefits by function encompasses eight functions:

• Sickness /Health care
• Disability
• Old age
• Survivors
• Family/children
• Unemployment
• Housing
• Social exclusion not elsewhere classified as well as the total of social benefits.

The detailed classification of benefits by type includes cash benefits and benefits in kind.

The collection "RECEIPTS" includes the following four tables:

1. spr_rec_sumt- The data include the receipts of social protection broken down by the different types of receipts - social contributions, general government contributions and other receipts.
2. spr_rec_scon – The data include social contributions by type of contributors: employer, protected persons, employees, self-employed, pensioners and other protected persons.
3. spr_rec_sums – The data include social contributions by the different sectors of origin: corporations, central government, state and local government, households, non-profit institutions, rest of the world.
4. spr_rec_suts – The data include social protection receipts by type and institutional sector.

Data on receipts are made available in the following units: million euro, million euro at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), euro per inhabitant, euro per inhabitant at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million units of national currency, million units of national currency at constant prices (using either 2010 or 2015 as base year), million pps, million pps pr inhabitant, percentage of GDP, percentage of total receipt.

Data on net social protection benefits correspond to the table " spr_net_ben" (Net social protection benefits) in the collection "NET".

The ESSPROS module on net social protection benefits (restricted approach) measures net expenditure by collecting information on the average rates of taxes and social contributions paid by recipients of each cash benefit reported in the Core system. These rates are then applied to the gross expenditure on each benefit to obtain a net value as follows:

Net social benefits = Gross social benefits * (1 – AITR – AISCR)

where AITR / AISCR are the Average itemized tax / social contribution rates.

The net social protection benefits are complemented by the value of “Fiscal benefits” provided in the form of tax breaks that would be defined as social protection benefits, if they were provided in cash. Tax breaks promoting the provision of social protection or promoting private insurance plans are excluded. Exceptionally, if some fiscal benefits cannot be taken into account in the assessment of the actual taxes and social contributions paid on social benefits (this happens for few countries), then the value of net benefits should be complemented by the residual value of the fiscal benefit. In this case the formula above becomes:

Net social benefits = Gross social benefits * (1 – AITR – AISCR) + Residual fiscal benefits

In ESSPROS, fiscal benefits are defined as social protection provided in the form of tax breaks that would be defined as social protection benefits if they were provided in cash, excluding tax breaks promoting the provision of social protection or promoting private insurance plans.

According to a 2015 decision of the Working Group on Social Protection Statistics, fiscal benefits in the form of payable tax credits should be included in full (both cash component plus fiscal component) in the ESSPROS Core System while all other forms of fiscal benefit are excluded from the Core System and dealt with in the NET modules (the existing restricted approach module and the planned enlarged approach modules).

More information is available in the Annex I "Payable tax credits".

Data on pension beneficiaries correspond to the collection "PENS" that contains the table "spr_pns_ben" (Pension Beneficiaries at 31 December of each year).

The data include the number of recipients of one or more periodic cash benefits under a social protection scheme falling within seven pension categories grouped into four basic functions.

The seven categories of pensions in this module are:

• Disability pension;
• Early retirement benefit due to reduced capacity to work;
• Old-age pension;
• Anticipated old-age pension;
• Partial pension;
• Survivor's pension;
• Early retirement benefit due to labour market reasons.

The four functions of the module are:

• Disability (grouping the first two categories of pensions above);
• Old age (grouping the next three);
• Survivors (the sixth category);
• Unemployment (the last category).

The data, available by gender for the total of schemes, are expressed in "units".

ESSPROS data on pension beneficiaries may represent aggregates of multiple types of pensions, granted for various purposes, under different conditions, and to different groups with different levels of entitlement. It is essential, therefore, that users understand exactly what the data show and can interpret the figures correctly. In view of this, please see the publication "Social protection statistics - pension expenditure and pension beneficiaries" and more specifically the section "interpretation of data".

Data on Unemployment benefits recipients correspond to the collection “UBR” that contains the table “spr_ubr_ben”.

The data include the number of recipients of one or more periodic cash benefits as classified

About the dataset This dataset uses information from the DWP benefit system to provide estimates of children living in poverty for wards in London. In order to be counted in this dataset, a family must have claimed Child Benefit and at least one other household benefit (Universal Credit, tax credits or Housing Benefit) during the year. The numbers are calibrated to the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) dataset used to provide the government's headline poverty statistics. The definition of relative low income is living in a household with equivalised* income before housing costs (BHC) below 60% of contemporary national median income. The income measure includes contributions from earnings, state support and pensions. Further detail on the estimates of dependent children living in relative low income, including alternative geographical breakdowns and additional variables, such as age of children, family type and work status are available from DWP's statistical tabulation tool Stat-Xplore. Minor adjustments to the data have been applied to guard against the identification of individual claimants. This dataset replaced the DWP children in out-of-work benefit households and HMRC children in low income families local measure releases. This dataset includes estimates for all wards in London of numbers of dependent children living in relative low income families for each financial year from 2014/15 to the latest available (2022/23). The figures for the latest year are provisional and are subject to minor revision when the next dataset is released by DWP. Headlines Number of children The number of dependent children living in relative low income across London, rose from below 310,000 in the financial year ending 2015 to over 420,000 in the financial year ending 2020, but has decreased since then to below 350,000, which is well below the number for financial year ending 2018. While many wards in London have followed a similar pattern, the numbers of children in low income families in some wards have fallen more sharply, while the numbers in other wards have continued to grow. Proportion of children in each London ward Ward population sizes vary across London, the age profile of that population also varies and both the size and make-up of the population can change over time, so in order to make more meaningful comparisons between wards or over time, DWP have also published rates, though see note below regarding caution when using these figures. A dependent child is anyone aged under 16; or aged 16 to 19 in full-time non-advanced education or in unwaged government training. Ward level estimates for the total number of dependent children are not available, so percentages cannot be derived. Ward level estimates for the percentage of children under 16 living in low income families are usually published by DWP but, in its latest release, ward-level population estimates were not available at the time, so no rates were published. To derive the rates in this dataset, the GLA has used the ONS's latest ward-level population estimates (official statistics in development). Percentages for 2021/22 are calculated using the 2021 mid year estimates, while percentages for 2022/23 are calculated using the 2022 mid year estimates. As these are official statistics in development, rates therefore need to be treated with some caution. Notes *equivalised income is adjusted for household size and composition in order to compare living standards between households of different types.