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The housing benefit system is increasingly falling short of covering Universal Credit claimants’ rents in the private sector.

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Local Housing Allowance coverage

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.

Local Housing Allowance coverage

Source

“DWP, Stat-Xplore.” DWP, Households on Universal Credit

Data

Last update: Q3 2026. Next update: Q4 2026

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