Levels of rent and service charges for exempt accommodation in your local authority area

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Dear Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council,

I would be most grateful if you could provide the following information in respect of providers of exempt accommodation (regardless of whether they are registered as providers of social housing with the HCA) covering the period of the last 3 financial years (i.e. 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18):

1. details of the lowest awarded eligible core rent;

2. details of the highest awarded eligible core rent;

3. details of the lowest awarded gross eligible rent (i.e. inclusive of the core rent and the eligible service charges);

4. details of the highest awarded gross eligible rent (i.e. inclusive of the core rent and the eligible service charges);and

5. details of any core rents and gross eligible rents where the claimed amount is higher than the highest awarded amounts AND has been subject to an appeal to the first-tier tribunal social entitlement chamber.

6. If you are unable to identify a claim as 'exempt accommodation' on your system, please instead provide details of the highest awarded housing benefit (per week).

Yours faithfully,

James Stuart

Data Protection, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

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Thank you
Trafford Council

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Data Protection, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear J Stuart,

 

Thank you for your email of the 16/02/2018 where you requested information
about Exempt Accommodation.

 

The information you requested is as follows.

 

The information in the table below is taken from the first Monday in April
in each year 2015, 2016 and 2017 where the claim is recorded as “exempt”.

 

We do not record the breakdown of core rent and eligible services on the
system, so these rents may have eligible services in them and they may
not.

 

The breakdown of rent and services information is held on the Document
Management System under each individual case but it would exceed the hours
to manually check all the applications to find the lowest and highest

 

  2015 2016 2017
details of the lowest
awarded eligible core Information not Information not Information not
rent; recorded recorded recorded
details of the highest Information not Information not Information not
awarded eligible core rent recorded recorded recorded
details of the lowest
awarded gross eligible
rent (i.e. inclusive of
the core rent and the
eligible service charges £63.77 £62.28 £61.64
details of the highest
awarded gross eligible
rent (i.e. inclusive of
the core rent and the
eligible service charges £494.82 £494.82 £494.82
details of any core rents
and gross eligible rents
where the claimed amount
is higher than the highest
awarded amounts AND has
been subject to an appeal
to the first-tier tribunal
social entitlement chamber 0 0 0
If you are unable to
identify a claim as
'exempt accommodation' on
your system, please
instead provide details of
the highest awarded
housing benefit (per
week).      

 

 

 

 

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Yours sincerely,

 

Information Governance

Legal Services | Trafford Council | Trafford Town Hall | Talbot Road |
Stretford | M32 0TH

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