Housing benefit is by default paid direct to tenants. Here are ways this rule can be ameliorated
Tag Archive: Local Housing Allowance
Landlord Law Podcast – with housing benefit expert Steve Perrons
Tessa Shepperson talks to housing benefit letting agent Steve Perrons. Steve specialises in renting to benefit tenants, and shares some of his secrets in this podcast.
Housing Benefit – the government answers questions
The housing law bulletin issued by Garden Court Chambers every week had some interesting links to housing benefit related items this week. Most interesting of all perhaps was a link to the Government’s response to the Work & Pensions Select Committee’s report on the forthcoming housing benefit changes. Here are a few points I have…
Housing benefit and LHA – what are they thinking?
Our regular guest blogger Ben Reeve-Lewis gets out his soapbox, and even peers into his crystal ball … Housing benefit and LHA – what are they thinking? I notice today that after climbing down over prison sentences for knife crime the government is also getting,……well not exactly cold, but definitely chilly feet about housing benefit…
When will Local Housing Allowance be paid direct to landlords?
One of the most consistent threads running through my Notable Property Persons posts is the need to get Local Housing Allowance (LHA) paid direct to landlords. Practically everyone mentions it. Many tenants would infinitely prefer their benefit to be paid over to their landlords, as it would prevent them spending it by accident or having…
Housing benefit and ethnic cleansing
The problem Reading the press this weekend we learn that Boris Johnson has likened it to “Kosovo-style social cleansing” in the capital and has vowed to resist it. An analysis prepared for him predicts a “50% increase in homelessness acceptances in the first year of the changes”. Labour MP Chris Bryant talks about the poor…
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Housing Benefit changes – an update
I received a very useful briefing recently from Alan Smith (pictured), housing officer at Hartsmere Borough Council, and he has kindly given me permission to reproduce this for you all. Budgetary Changes being made to Housing Benefit (NB: Except where stated, existing HB recipients will be affected from their tenancy anniversary, or possibly sooner if…
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