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'Discretionary Housing Payments
These are extra payments to help you meet the shortfall between your rent and your Housing Beneft or Universal Credit Housing costs. The government give Local Authorities a separate budget to administer. Each Local Authority designs its own criteria for payments. You need to apply separately for the payments. There is no formal appeal route except by means of initially a revision and then a judicial review in the High Court.'

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