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 our latest research on the LHA and why the Government should unfreeze support.
Source
“DWP, Stat-Xplore.” DWP, Households on Universal Credit
Data
Last update: Q3 2026. Next update: Q4 2026
