The DWP have tried to issue guidance in the past encouraging authorities to use this provision quite widely to rule as ineligible things like communal gardening, although I remember that there were commissioners' decisions that ruled this sort of approach out of order. What experience do people have of this sort of approach being used for adaptions to cope with disability, where such adaptions will remain the property of the landlord? Is it significant whether or not the adaptions are specifically designed for the particular disability of the tenant, or are intended more generally to make the accommodation suitable for disabled people? Which adaptions do you think count as services rather than rent items?

I dont hink it reaally matters either way. All such adaptations should count as rent items, just as they count as eligible housing costs for loans in IS/JSA/PC.

"Services" has the same meaning for HB as it does for IS/JSA/PC