The Shropshire Star report:

The local authority distributed £81,285 in discretionary housing payments (DHP) to residents needing financial help between April and June this year.

The fund was introduced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last year after uproar caused by the Government’s under-occupancy charge,dubbed the bedroom tax.

Up to 370 DHP applications were made in Shropshire during the first three months of the financial year, according to details supplied in a Freedom of Information request. But 215 of those were declined or refused.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.