Nearly half of privately renting families on Universal Credit do not have their housing costs fully covered by Local Housing Allowance (LHA), a number likely to go up with LHA currently frozen.
Read more about this in the Housing Outlook Q2 2025.
Source
“DWP, Stat-Xplore.” DWP, Households on Universal Credit
Data
Update frequency: quarterly. Next update: Q2 2026.
