Applications to the Household Support Fund - Find a freedom of information request

1. The number of applications to the Household Support Fund during the 12 months to 31st December 2022.

2. The monetary amount of support provided to applicants to the Household Support Fund during the 12 months to 31st December 2022.

3. The number of successful applicants to the Household Support Fund during the 12 months to 31st December 2022.

4. If possible, I would also like to know the outstanding monetary amount from the Household Support Fund that is available before the scheme ends on 31st March 2023.

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. The council has not operated an application based process, however allocations were made to each of the District Council areas of which some offered an application based process during this period ( for Household Support Fund 1 and 2), most used a provider referral arrangement locally. 

The county council does not hold this data for HSF 1 and 2 as it was not a requirement to do so until the scheme (HSF 3) which began on the 1st October 2022 – March 2023.

Our interim return to the DWP includes data up to and including the 31st December 2022 of which 617 households received funding via an application-based process ( detailed below)

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