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Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit (CTB) quarterly performance statistics
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Title Housing Benefit (HB) and Council Tax Benefit (CTB) quarterly performance statistics
Description
Performance statistics monitor how well or how badly their council is doing at administering housing and council tax benefit. Measures of performance include Average time for processing new claims, Percentage of new claims outstanding over 50 days, Percentage of new claims decided within 14 days of receipt of the local authority receiving all necessary information, Percentage of new Rent Allowance claims paid where the first payment is made on time, Average time for processing changes of circumstances, Percentage of cases calculated correctly.
Source
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Where to find the data
Publisher Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
URL 2007/08 data
http://research.dwp.gov.uk/ ...

Earlier periods
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/ ...

Coverage
Geographic coverage Great Britain
Geographic units Local Authority District (LAD), Government Office Region (GOR)
Time coverage (most recent) 2007/08
Time coverage 2003/04 to 2007/08
Update frequency Quarterly
Data quality
Type of data Administrative data
Reliability From 1 April 2006 changes have been made to the way performance data is presented to bring the data into line with the way performance is assessed under the HB/CTB Performance Standards. The quartiles for each performance measure have been superseded by the grade ranges that determine the Performance Standards 1?4 scores that indicate relative performance. These are: 4 Excellent 3 Good 2 Meeting minimum requirements 1 Not meeting minimum requirements. Data from April 2006 published quarterly
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