Information regarding Housing Benefit claim numbers and amounts

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Dear Barking and Dagenham Borough Council,

I would like to recieve the following information:

1. Number of active Housing Benefit Claims on the first Monday of
April each year for as far back as your records allow.
2. Number of active Housing Benefit Claims on the first Monday of
April each year where either (or both of) the Claimant or their
Partner is recorded as having had "Earned Income" on that date, for
as far back as your records allow.
3. The Total amount of Housing Benefit paid for the week starting
on the first Monday of April each year for as far back as your
records allow.
4. The Total amount of Housing Benefit paid for the week starting
on the first Monday of April each year where either (or both of)
the Claimant or their Partner is recorded as having had "Earned
Income" on the first Monday of April, for as far back as your
records allow.

I would like to make it clear that I would consider income from
Self Employment to be "Earned Income"

For your convenience, the dates of the first Monday of April for
the last 15 years are below:
04/04/2011
05/04/2010
06/04/2009
07/04/2008
02/04/2007
03/04/2006
04/04/2005
05/04/2004
07/04/2003
01/04/2002
02/04/2001
03/04/2000
05/04/1999
06/04/1998
07/04/1997

Many thanks for your help.

Yours faithfully,

Mr J Chandler

Corporate Complaints Team, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

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Benefits Complaints, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

Dear Mr Chandler

 

Request for information reference: LBBD/59867

 

Your request for information regarding Housing Benefit claims and amounts
as far back as our records allow has now been considered.

 

Please see details below in response to your request.

 

1.    Number of active Housing Benefit Claims on the first Monday of April
each year for as far back as your records allow.

 

A.    2007 = 15196 claims

2008 = 15143 claims

2009 = 15756 claims

2010 = 16298 claims

2011 = 16588 claims

 

2.    Number of active Housing Benefit Claims on the first Monday of April
each year where either (or both of) the Claimant or their Partner is
recorded as having had "Earned Income" on that date, for as far back as
your records allow.

 

A.    2007 = 2030 claims

2008 = 2284 claims

2009 = 2861 claims

2010 = 3683 claims

2011 = 4549 claims

 

3.    The Total amount of Housing Benefit paid for the week starting on
the first Monday of April each year for as far back as your records allow.

 

A.    2007 = £1,382,734.81

2008 = £1,552,197.51

2009 = £1,744,481.42

2010 = £1,840,556.17

2011 = £1,940,485.67

 

4. The Total amount of Housing Benefit paid for the week starting on the
first Monday of April each year where either (or both of) the Claimant or
their Partner is recorded as having had "Earned Income" on the first
Monday of April, for as far back as your records allow.

 

A.    2007 = £582,099.04

2008 = £474,135.70

2009 = £639,917.14

2010 = £883,406.85

2011 = £946,902.31

 

If you need any more information, or if I can be of any further help,
please contact me.

 

If you are not satisfied with the way that I have dealt with your request
you can make a complaint by writing to the Corporate Complaints Team, 2^nd
Floor, 15 Linton Road, Barking IG11 7HE  Alternatively you can make your
complaint on-line at [1]www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk or you can e-mail your
complaint to [2][email address].

 

If you are still not satisfied, after following our Corporate Complaints
procedure, you can take your complaint to the Information Commissioner. 
Full details of how to do this will be made available on request.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Nicola Ross | Complaints and Quality Assurance Officer | Revenues and
Benefits Service

 

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham | 90 Stour Road | Dagenham | RM10
7JD

Phone: 020 8724 8635 | Fax: 020 8227 2574

 

Email: [3][email address].uk | Website:
[4]www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk

 

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Dear Nicola Ross,

Thank you very much for your assistance with this. I have been asked by a number of other councils who are struggling with this request if I can point them at people who have successfully extracted the data for me, and who use the same software as them. Could you therefore let me know what software you use to assess your Benefit claims?

Thank you ever so much for your help with this

Yours sincerely,

Mr J Chandler

Benefits Complaints, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council

Dear Mr Chandler

Thank you for your email.

The system used by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to assess benefit claims is called Academy.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Nicola Ross | Complaints and Quality Assurance Officer | Revenues and Benefits Service

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham | 90 Stour Road | Dagenham | RM10 7JD
Phone: 020 8724 8635 | Fax: 020 8227 2574

Website: www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk

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