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Pension credit having a housing cost element
Am I going mad or has nothing else of note been said about this?
If I remember right this was meant to happen as uc was going for world dominating of working age claimants but I’ve seen no updates.
Did I imagine all this or miss the latest?
Haven’t heard a dickie bird that I’m aware of.
Obviously the powers are there in WRA 2012 but PC housing element still looks a long way off.
The most recent clue I saw was in the editiorial to HB Direct 171 from October 2016
“We know that Universal Credit won’t be fully rolled out until 20/22/23 and that we won’t be looking to bring housing costs into DWP benefit for pensioners in this Parliament ; so effective HB delivery is going to be critical to millions of people’s lives for quite some time to come”
cheers for that. its not just me then!