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DWP will rule on Universal Credit direct payment exceptions
12/02/2013 
newsatlandlordreferencingThe Local support services framework for the upcoming welfare reform states that it will be up to the Department for Work and Pensions to make exceptions to normal payment rules; e.g. paying the housing element of Universal Credit of landlords. In most cases Universal Credit will be paid to the claimant, on a monthly basis. [...]
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Leave a commentLandlords DO NOT ignore the basics.
Do not ignore the basics: go over this landlord check-list Are you thinking of renting out your property? Whether you are an experienced property-owner with many tenants already or a first time landlord, it is worth taking the time to prepare and go over a list of tasks that should be performed before and after [...]
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Universal Credit regulations have been re-drafted by The Department for Work and Pensions, in response to sector concerns about service charges. Rules relating to service charges were rewritten ahead of the publication of universal credit regulations this week. The new draft includes four categories of payments, including: payments for the up-keep of communal areas, to [...]
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A 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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The Department for Work and Pensions has been criticised after revealing it will not tell landlords how well its universal credit pilots are working until next year. Six pilot projects are currently running across the country to test the direct payment of benefit to tenants instead of to landlords. The projects, which run until [...]
Why are councils failing to help homeless tenants?
A Freedom of Information request (FOI) has revealed that councils right across the UK failed to spend nearly £8million in Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) last year. In these economically hard times and with homelessness on the increase, drastic situations such as Croydon tenants being moved to towns in Yorkshire; Winter Migration; Tenants Fly North – are [...]
Universal Credit | The impact on women’s refuges.
Charities have warned that the impending welfare changes (via Universal Credit) could lead to closures of much needed women’s refuges and as a direct result; a rise in domestic violence deaths. Universal Credit Explained in full. Draft Universal Credit regulations, due to be addressed in Parliament this Autumn, only list 3 types of charge eligible [...]
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A Scottish Councillor and the Chief Executive of the SFHA have voiced their concerns regarding the impending changes to the welfare system (via Universal Credit); fearing that it could leave some city housing associations struggling to survive. When the Universal Credit system goes live, in October 2013, payments will be made directly to tenants and it [...]
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Following the recent petition ” Universal housing benefits to be paid to landlords ” the Employment Minister has said that the DWP will have the capability to make payments to landlords for social and private tenants. Responding to questions from shadow Work and Pensions Minister Stephen Timms and written questions in parliament, Chris Grayling also [...]
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In an updated impact assessment regarding welfare reform (Universal Credit) the government has doubled its estimate of the number of claimants who will lose any entitlement to housing benefit; as a direct result of its under-occupation penalty AKA ‘bedroom tax’. The Government intends to use powers contained in the Welfare Reform Act 2012 to provide [...]
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