Issue - decisions

Household Support Fund (HSF) 7

30/04/2025 - Household Support Fund (HSF) 7

That the Household Support Fund (HSF7) from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 be allocated as follows:

 

1.    Fuel Support £168,000;

 

2.    Food Vouchers £100,000;

 

3.    Care Experienced Young People £50,000;

 

4.    Food Support:

 

-       Foodbanks £194,500

-       Social Supermarkets £154,000

-       Food Alliance Coordinator £15,000;

 

5.    Warm Spaces £35,000;

 

6.    Help for homeless people to secure and set up new accommodation £110,000;

 

7.    Debt and benefit advice £127,500;

 

8.    Direct applications from households who are in receipt of welfare benefits and who receive a disability benefit or have children. Payment of £100 on application made directly into customer bank account:

 

-           Budget -Households with a disability £180,000

-           Budget - Households with children £220,000;

 

9.    Financial support for households with acute financial challenges (All household types, applications via partners) £400,000;

 

10.  £50 payments for Working Age Council Tax Reduction recipients £290,000; and

 

11.  Contingency budget (1.18% of available spend for services) £24,416.