COVID-19 analysis for Harrow

Policy in Practice recently completed reports for the Greater London Authority on The impact of the COVID-19 Hardship Fund on low-income Londoners and The interaction of COVID-19 measures and the Benefit Cap on low-income Londoners. Findings from the latter report were covered in The Observer.

Here are extracts of this analysis that relate specifically to your council.

Contact us to discuss these findings via hello@policyinpractice.co.uk or 0330 088 9242.

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Research findings at a glance

  • Harrow were allocated £1,391,506 for the 6,442 working-age households in receipt of CTS in the borough
  • Following government guidance on the hardship fund uses up 69% of Harrow’s total allocation
  • This leaves £425,206 for the borough to use as a discretionary pot, funding that could potentially be better targeted using LIFT
  • Taking into account the expected increase in caseload, however, we predict you will require a further £463,790 should you follow government guidance
  • Taking into account the expected increase in caseload, however, we predict you will have -£463,790 remaining

 £425,206

Potential funds left over

COVID-19 Hardship Fund

  • From the data available at the time of modelling, Harrow had a maximum CTS reduction level of 70.0% (100.0% for vulnerable groups)
  • The borough had a working-age CTS cohort of 6.4k. The total COVID-19 Hardship Fund allocation was £1.4m

Benefit Cap

  • 170 households (and 398 children) in Harrow were affected by the benefit cap before the April 2020 COVID-19 changes according to our engine. This represents 0.2% of the total borough population, and 10.4% of the SHBE cohort
  • 241 additional households (351 additional children) were projected to become affected by the benefit cap as a result of the new COVID-19 measures. This represented an increase of 141.8% in the number of capped households
  • The COVID-19 measures brought the total percentage of households capped in Harrow to 411, 0.5% of the total population (25.2% of the SHBE cohort)

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