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Housing Benefit Recoveries and Fraud

Publisher
Department for Work and Pensions
Updated
8 July 2026
Topic
Society

Summary

This data contains statistics relating to Housing Benefit fraud volumes and amounts of incorrectly overpaid benefit. It is aggregate level data received on a quarterly basis from each Local Authority.

Quarterly National Statistics relating to housing benefit overpayments and fraud. NOTE: From April 2016 the statistics no longer include fraud data.

Source agency: Work and Pensions

Designation: National Statistics

Language: English

Alternative title: HBRF

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/housing-benefit-recoveries-and-fraud-data

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
2010/11 return XLS 26/10/2011
2009/10 return XLS 26/10/2011

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