The Department for Work and Pensions announced the beneficiaries of its 拢33m fund to boost housing benefit performance on Tuesday.
Money went to 212 local authorities. Newcastle council, which has pulled itself up from the bottom to the middle quartile of the housing benefit performance table, got the largest award of more than 拢1.2m.

This year's funds focused on training, recruitment and IT projects.

New housing benefit minister Chris Pond said: "Funding has been disproportionately given to local authorities in the lower half of the performance table.

It's probably quite well targeted but we are not excluding those who are doing well and want to do better."

Quarterly housing benefit performance figures, released on 3 July, showed that 6% more authorities reached the target of processing new claims in 36 days.

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Housing Today