The following costs cannot be met by a DHP
• Increases in rent due to outstanding rent arrears.
This is where your rent is increased on account of outstanding
arrears which are owed by you in respect of your current or former
home
• Sanctions or reductions in benefit, such as a
reduction in weekly benefit for failing to comply with the Child
Support Agency, or a sanction for failing to comply with a
condition for receipt of JSA, ESA or IS
• Benefit suspensions: HB or UC can be suspended
either because there is a general doubt about entitlement or
because you have failed to supply information relevant to your
claim. In such cases, a DHP cannot be paid to meet the benefit
suspended
• Rent, when you are getting council tax reduction
but not HB or help with housing costs in UC
• Shortfalls caused by HB or UC overpayment recovery:
when recovery of an HB or UC overpayment is taking place, such
shortfalls cannot considered for a DHP.
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