08 January 2024

DWP fails to commit to continuing Household Support Fund

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has failed to commit to making the Household Support Fund (HSF) available to councils in 2024-25.

Writing in The MJ, Camden LBC’s executive director of corporate services Jon Rowney called the HSF a ‘critical feature of our cost-of-living crisis support’.

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