Housing Benefit Debt Recoveries statistics
Statistics on the amount of Housing Benefit that is overpaid to claimants, the overpayments recovered and amounts written off.
These statistics are published twice a year:
- in March (for the period April to September)
- in September (for the period April to March)
Find future Housing Benefit Debt Recoveries publication dates in our statistics release calendar and more about Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) statistics on the Statistics at DWP page.
Email [email protected] with feedback and queries about the statistics.
Latest release
These statistics report on overpaid Housing Benefit.
Background information and guidance
Previous releases
These statistics report on overpaid Housing Benefit. From April 2016 the statistics no longer include fraud data.
Related publications
DWP publishes:
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historic and forecast benefit expenditure and caseload data which is usually consistent with the annual Budget and Autumn Statement
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National and Official statistics on the main benefits administered by DWP
Updates to this page
Published 11 September 2013Last updated 4 September 2024 + show all updates
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit Debt Recoveries statistics, this has data from April 2023 to March 2024.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit Debt Recoveries statistics, this has data for April 2023 to September 2023.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, this has data for April 2022 to March 2023.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, this has data for April 2022 to September 2022.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2021 to March 2022.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2021 to September 2021.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2020 to March 2021.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April to September 2020.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2019 to March 2020.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April to September 2019.
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Added a note that the review about the frequency of publication of these statistics is now closed and we are analysing your feedback.
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Added a link to the latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2018 to March 2019.
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Note added about a review of the frequency of publication of these statistics.
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Added latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2018 to September 2018.
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Added 'Housing Benefit: statistics on speed of processing 2018 to 2019' - the data in this release of statistics is for April to June 2018, also known as quarter 1.
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Added latest release of Housing Benefit debt recoveries statistics, data from April 2017 to March 2018.
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Added the latest Housing Benefit debt recoveries data, this has information from April 2017 to September 2017.
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Added latest Housing Benefit debt recoveries data to March 2017. Also added 'Related publications' section.
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Added latest Housing Benefit debt recoveries data to September 2016.
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Added latest Housing Benefit recoveries and fraud data to March 2016.
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Published latest Housing Benefit recoveries and fraud data to September 2015.
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Published latest statistics to March 2015 and a background information note.
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Published Housing Benefit recoveries and fraud data for April 2014 to September 2014.
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Published Housing Benefit recoveries and fraud data for April 2013 to March 2014.
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New statistical release for the period April 2013 to September 2013 published.
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First published.