More than 120 councils have overspent their government funding allocation to support the housing of benefit claimants.
Official figures revealed authorities in England and Wales spent around £7m more than was allocated to them through the Government’s Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) scheme between April 2015 and March 2016.
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