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Landlord claims Universal Credit will cost £8 million a year!
07/12/2012 
newsatlandlordreferencingA landlord on a Universal Credit pilot project has claimed that the abolishment of direct payments of rent will cost it £8 million a year. Wakefield District Housing (WDH) is running one of the six pilot projects to test the effectiveness of direct payment of Universal Credit to tenants, and has calculated that the reforms [...]
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Leave a commentUK tenants in severe arrears tops 100,000.
As rents continue to rise and wages fall Tenant Arrears Tracker by Templeton LPA have revealed that in the second quarter of 2012 the number of tenants in severe arrears has risen to a worrying 100,400 – an increase of 24% compared to a year ago. The specialist practice of LPA Receivers (part of the [...]
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