The LHA rates are the maximum amount of benefit that can be paid and when it was introduced they were set at the median average of a sample of rents in a local ... housing policies here in Wales".

As with most cuts imposed by Westminster, Wales is set to suffer disproportionately due to our high number of housing benefit and DLA (Disability Living Allowance) recipients. ** Tomorrow's debate ...

Gwynedd Council wrote off the most (£428,606) after overpaying £1,748,740 in housing benefits between 2012-15. Across all of the 22 local authorities in Wales more than £70m was wrongly paid in ...

Families in Wales face an increased risk of homelessness after the UK government’s decision to freeze housing benefit levels ... with the benefit freeze likely to put greater pressure on local ...

He said it would be a struggle but he would give up £20 from his housing benefit if he had to. Local authorities say that across Wales there ... that tenants who, for example, had seen their ...