Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 8 September 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the number of non-resident parents (a) in Bristol and (b) nationally who will be restricted to the local housing allowance shared accommodation rate as a result of increasing the age threshold to 35 in January 2012.
It is estimated that around 10,000 of the people affected by the extension of the shared accommodation rate are non-resident parents who have some contact with children who live elsewhere.
Estimates have not been produced at local authority level.
Source
DWP analysis of 2008/09 Family Resources Survey and 2008 Families and Children Survey
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