Decision details
Discretionary Housing Payment Payment Policy
PDF 112 KBDecision Maker: Cabinet Member for Finance, Property and Corporate Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
The policy needs to be updated in response to
changes in the government allocation
Decision:
That the Cabinet Member for Finance, Property and Corporate Services agreed the new Discretionary Housing Payment Policy as set out in Appendix 2 of the report.
Reasons for Decision
Discretionary Housing Payment (DHP) is not a long term solution and a new policy is proposed to better help households move towards not being reliant on DHP and to have more stability in their housing, as they are living in homes which they can afford. It is also proposed to reflect the Council’s objective which is to manage the DHP budget and to run a DHP scheme by April 2019 without a contribution from its own resources. This follows a reduction in the government’s contribution to the DHP scheme of 47% for 2017/18.
Publication date: 09/10/2017
Date of decision: 09/10/2017
Effective from: 17/10/2017
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