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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NO. 649
Housing Trust - Household Structures
MR. CORNWELL - Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services - In relation to the ACT Housing Trusts submission to the Industry Commission Inquiry into Public Housing and the statement at page 10 (Attachment One) that reliable data on household structure only exists for 30 per cent of households receiving rental rebate -
(1) Why is this so.
(2) How are review teams currently engaged in updating information for
these households.
(3) If reliable data only exists on household structures for 30 per cent of
households on rental rebate, how do you justify your response to the
question on notice No 23 that "incomes derived from other sources
(than statutory incomes such as Age and Invalid pensions) are more
liable to change and accordingly rental rebates are reviewed each six
months" and further that "Procedures exist to check the level of rental
rebate for which tenants are eligible."
(4) How many households have been found to have different household
structures by the review teams currently engaged in updating
information.
(5) How many households and what steps have been taken against these
households where breaches of rental rebate agreements have been
discovered by the current review team.
(6) How much stock has been found to be under-utilised by the current
review team.
(7) How many properties have been found to house additional tenants in
breach of their tenancy agreements and what action has been taken
against such breaches.
MR. CONNOLLY - The answer to the Members question is as follows:
(1) The Industry Commission sought data on this matter at a specific date.
At that time the Housing Trust was part way through supplementing and
verifying information on the new computer data base. Reliable data
now exists for 40% of households.
(2) Rent rebate information provided by tenants on the rebate review forms
is input into the
data base
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