Households presenting as homeless between 2022 and 2023 that claim Universal Credit
Dear FOI Team,
I write to request information on the number of households claiming Universal Credit and/or housing benefit who presented to you as homeless between May 2022 and June 2023.
As part of this request, I would like this information to be broken down into the following:
(i) The total number of households claiming Universal Credit presenting as homeless since May 2022, broken down into leasehold property, private rented and social housing;
(i) The total number of households claiming housing benefit – part of the legacy welfare system – presenting as homeless since May 2022, broken down into leasehold property, private rented and social housing (if relevant).
If the cost of breaking down property types exceeds the figure set out in Section 12 of the FOI Act, then please provide a total amount of households presenting while claiming Universal Credit.
If possible, please present the information in Excel format.
Yours faithfully,
Oliver Murphy
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Dear Oliver
I refer to your Freedom of Information request, detailed below. Under section 1(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am advising you that South Norfolk Council does hold the information, which you have requested.
I have made some investigations into the likely time and cost of locating, retrieving and extracting the information requested and should advise you that this would take a significant amount of time. This is due to not having the mechanism to run an automated report to retrieve the information from an old software system. It would require officers to undertake a manual search of in excess of 600 records of people presenting as homeless since that date.
The cost of this work would exceed the "appropriate" limit stated in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. Under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, in this situation South Norfolk Council has the option of refusing to supply the information and this email therefore acts as a notice of refusal.
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Please quote SFOI 23-310 in any further correspondence concerning this request.
Regards.
Tracy Brady
Civic Officer
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