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This report details the findings of a scoping review of the literature on poverty in Northern Ireland, undertaken as part of the Department’s Economic and Social Research Programme 2021/22.

The aim of the Covid Recovery Programme for Organisations is to reduce or remove operating deficits, which have arisen in the 2021/22 financial year because of the pandemic. Operating deficits, which are unrelated to COVID, will not be eligible.

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 contained powers to amend how Housing Benefit is calculated based on a claimants need rather than the size of property they occupy.  Accordingly the Housing Benefit (Amendment No.