The phrase "accommodation claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to requests for adjustments or provisions, often in legal, insurance, or customer service scenarios.
Example: "The tenant submitted an accommodation claim to request modifications for accessibility in the apartment."
Alternatives: "adjustment request" or "modification claim".
However, around one-quarter of tenants in private accommodation claim the benefit – and a third of them are in employment.
Those either in social housing or in part-buy, part-rent accommodation claim they are treated as second-class citizens, citing the internal gates that divide them from their neighbours in the "luxury" housing blocks.
Tom Copley's report says those living in privately rented accommodation claim as much as £100 a week – £5,200 a year – more in housing benefit than council tenants in the same area.
He said at the time that the accommodation claims had been made in good faith.
Before housing benefit, young people living in hotels, hostels and similar accommodation claimed board and lodgings allowance.
"As part of the regular review of all MPs' claims, Ipsa's internal assurance function found that Nadine Dorries MP's pattern of travel and accommodation claims were unusual, and were referred to the compliance officer for investigation.
The expenses scandal has hit the Tories deeply too, but a week in which the chancellor (a decent and busy man) finds himself writing cheques to his own department to repay accommodation claims cannot be anything other than depressing.
The rise is partly down to higher rents and stalled earnings, but also because the number of people in private rented accommodation claiming housing benefit has risen since 2008 from 1 million to 1.5 million.
An Ipsa spokesman said: "As part of the regular review of all MPs' claims, Ipsa's internal assurance function found that Nadine Dorries MP's pattern of travel and accommodation claims were unusual, and were referred to the compliance officer for investigation.
Officials said the focus was on travel and accommodation claims made in 2011 and last year.
While policy around secure accommodation claims that it offers a therapeutic intervention, to help young people work through their problems and learn appropriate coping mechanisms, it also keeps them 'safe' by physically locking them away from the world in which they have been entrenched.
