228,000 households receive housing allowance, half as many as a year ago
In December, 228 000 households received housing benefits, an increase of almost 48 % year-on-year. Expenditure on the benefit reached CZK 8.6 billion last year, according to data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. The average household received CZK 4,777. The state spent a total of CZK 8.56 billion on benefits last year, almost CZK 2 billion more than the year before. This is according to reports on benefit payments and data published by the Labour Ministry on its website today. However, according to the statistics, there are fewer households receiving the benefit than in the years after the last crisis. Spending is also lower now than then.
Source : https://www.idnes.cz/mpsv-prispevek-na-bydleni-domacnosti