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Meaning of "housing benefit" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOUSING BENEFIT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOUSING BENEFIT

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Housing benefit is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOUSING BENEFIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

housing benefit

Housing Benefit

Housing Benefit is a means tested social security benefit in the UK that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the single biggest cost for the taxpayer, totalling £23.8billion in 2013-14 - almost 30% of the entire welfare bill. The primary legislation governing Housing Benefit is the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992. Operationally, the governing Regulations are statutory instruments arising from that Act. It is governed by one of two sets of regulations. For working age claimants it is governed by the "Housing Benefit Regulations 2006", but for those who have reached the qualifying age for Pension Credit it is governed by the "Housing Benefit Regulations 2006". It is normally administered by the local authority in whose area the property being rented lies. In some circumstances, normally council tenants in "out of borough properties", some claimants may be required to obtain Housing Benefit from the borough that placed them. For those areas where there are two or more tier local government structure, Housing Benefit is administered by the district or borough council layer of local government.

Definition of housing benefit in the English dictionary

The definition of housing benefit in the dictionary is a payment made by a local authority in the form of a rent rebate to a council tenant or a rent allowance to a private tenant.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOUSING BENEFIT

housewifeship
housewifeskep
housewifey
housewives
housework
houseworker
housey
housey-housey
housing
housing association
housing conditions
housing development
housing estate
housing list
housing market
housing project
housing scheme
housing shortage
housing stock
housings

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOUSING BENEFIT

benefit
child benefit
cost-benefit
death benefit
defined-benefit
disablement benefit
disbenefit
Earnings Related Benefit
fringe benefit
incapacity benefit
injury benefit
invalidity benefit
maternity benefit
refit
retirement benefit
sickness benefit
single parent benefit
standard housing benefit
supplementary benefit
unemployment benefit
widow´s benefit

Synonyms and antonyms of housing benefit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «housing benefit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOUSING BENEFIT

Find out the translation of housing benefit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of housing benefit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «housing benefit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

住房福利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

subsidio de vivienda
570 millions of speakers

English

housing benefit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आवास लाभ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إعانة الإسكان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жилищное пособие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

subsídio de habitação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবাসন সুবিধা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´allocation de logement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Manfaat perumahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wohngeld
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

住宅手当
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주택 혜택
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Entuk manfaat omah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lợi ích nhà ở
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீட்டுப் பயன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गृहनिर्माण लाभ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Konut parası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sussidi per l´alloggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Housing Benefit
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

житлову допомогу
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

alocația pentru locuință
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στεγαστικό επίδομα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

behuising voordeel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bostadsbidrag
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bostøtte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of housing benefit

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSING BENEFIT»

The term «housing benefit» is quite widely used and occupies the 40.500 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of housing benefit
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOUSING BENEFIT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «housing benefit» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «housing benefit» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about housing benefit

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOUSING BENEFIT»

Discover the use of housing benefit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to housing benefit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Changes to housing benefit announced in the June 2010 ...
The Work and Pensions Committee report that there is still a level of uncertainty around the impact of the proposed changes to Housing Benefit and their cumulative effect on households.
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions Committee, 2010
2
Housing Benefit Hill and Other Places: Collected Columns, ...
The collected front-line reports from C.J. Stone's popular Guardian and Big Issue Columns.
C. J. Stone, 2002
3
Guide to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit 2012-13
Published by housing experts Shelter and the Chartered Institute of Housing, this edition covers all the new rules across the UK and contains practical examples and over 70 useful tables for quick reference.
Sam Lister, 2012
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Managing the Impact of Housing Benefit Reform: Department ...
As part of the measures announced in the emergency budget in June 2010 and the Spending Review of October 2010, the Government announced changes to housing benefit, including reductions to local housing allowance rates for private rented ...
Great Britain: National Audit Office, 2012
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The Housing Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. no. ...
The measures were referred to the Social Security Advisory Committee and this report outlines their recommendations and the Government's response to those recommendations.
Great Britain: Social Security Advisory Committee, 2010
6
Department for Work and Pensions: Managing the Impact of ...
Housing Benefit helps those on a low income in social or private housing to pay all or part of their rent, and supported some five million households in Great Britain in 2011-12 at a cost of £23.4 billion.
Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts, 2013
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The Social Security, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit ...
Statement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in accordance with Section 174(2) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 THE SOCIAL SECURITY, HOUSING BENEFIT AND COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT ( MISCELLANEOUS ...
Social Security Advisory Committee, Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions, 2007
8
Housing Allowances in Comparative Perspective
Housing Benefit has important distributional impacts, the shape of which reflect the fact that it is an income-related programme. Using micro-data from the Family Expenditure Survey, Gibbs and Kemp (1993) showed that receipt of Housing ...
Peter Kemp, 2007
9
Social Welfare Alive!
There are a number of problems with Housing Benefit: • persuading all those who are eligible to apply for it: it is estimated that between 5 and 10 per cent of those eligible simply do not claim • fraud: no one knows the true extent of Housing ...
Stephen Moore, Peter Scourfield, 2002
10
Social Security Law in Context
The housing benefit scheme was fully introduced in April 1983, under the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982. It was intended to provide assistance with rent and rates on premises occupied as a home. Claimants who were in ...
Neville S. Harris, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOUSING BENEFIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term housing benefit is used in the context of the following news items.
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Housing benefit for under-21s is a vital safety net | Housing Network …
Mhairi Black used her maiden speech in the Commons to highlight the impact on young people of cuts to housing benefit. Photograph: Lesley ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Housing benefit plans in budget are an assault on young people …
Government cuts to housing benefit could lead to more young people in Mansfield and Ashfield becoming homeless. That was the warning of a ... «Mansfield Chad, Jul 15»
3
Andy Burnham clashes with acting leader Harriet Harman over …
... alternative in a speech on Wednesday , including tax incentives to allow councils to build more homes and so cut the housing benefit bill. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Contradictions of the Conservatives' housing policy
Ministers have never been enamoured of the sector, believing it charges high rents that are largely funded by housing benefit payments to ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
5
Housing Benefit change will hit Norfolk young homeless
YMCA Norfolk Chief Executive Tim Sweeting has expressed concerns over the changes to Housing Benefit announced by Chancellor George ... «Network Norwich, Jul 15»
6
Housing benefit is a lifeline not a lifestyle
Even with the promise to exempt vulnerable groups from cuts to young people's housing benefit, the government's plans still run a huge risk of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Osborne's cut to housing benefit will drive young people into …
George Osborne's emergency Budget delivered in many respects, but it failed young people. His plan to cut housing benefit for ... «Politics.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Housing benefit cuts could make more youths homeless, charity …
The chief executive of a Lincolnshire homeless charity has raised doubts over the government's housing benefit reforms, suggesting that more ... «The Lincolnite, Jul 15»
9
Budget 2015: Tax credits and housing benefit to be cut for families …
Families with more than two children will not receive tax credits or housing benefit for their third or subsequent children under a fundamental ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
10
Budget 2015: Housing benefit 'not out of choice'
Under the new arrangements announced in the Budget, new housing benefit claimants will have to be over 21. Rachel was younger than this ... «BBC News, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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