Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support in Leicester, 2022 Snapshot

An annual snapshot of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support provided by Leicester City Council as of 1st April 2022. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service and is available in CSV and JSON formats.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of local welfare support based on the annual snapshot.
• Comparing council tax support allocations across different years based on the snapshot publication method.
• Modeling local government financial liabilities for housing benefit based on the provided data.

Strengths

• Data provides a specific temporal snapshot (1st April 2022).
• Published in multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Leicester City Council, published via Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Administrative records snapshot.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1st April 2022.

Freshness

Annual snapshot; last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom.