Ms Lyndsey Anderson:

The housing assistance payment, HAP, is available for cost-rental tenants. As and when your income might decrease, if you have been the cost-rental home for six months, you are eligible to apply for HAP for rental support. There have been some challenges in implementing that but we have talked to our colleagues in the Department about it and we are confident it can be cleared up. It is legislated for that HAP is available for tenants in cost rental whose income comes down.