Housing Benefit capped at £400 a week!

Colincbayley

ILW wrote: »

Or sign on and get it all paid for them.

Not after 12 months they won't!


33 Reduce awards to 90% after 12 months for claimants of Jobseekers Allowance

Jowo_2

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

You mean create LHA ghettos?

Southwark has one of the largest proportions of social housing in London. Social housing tenants are much more likely to be workless for many reasons and hence have their rent paid by Housing Benefit.

So chances are, it's a LHA/HB ghetto already if you define an area with an above average level of deprivation, and hence higher number of LHA/HB claimants in this way.

puddy

the example above with the elderly relative wouldnt be applicable from what i remember, they would be restricted to what number of rooms they would need without the other adult, the relative would not be considered as part of the household in terms of need for room numbers and would have non dependant deduction made to the housing benefit paid

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jowo wrote: »

Southwark has one of the largest proportions of social housing in London. Social housing tenants are much more likely to be workless for many reasons and hence have their rent paid by Housing Benefit.

So chances are, it's a LHA/HB ghetto already if you define an area with an above average level of deprivation, and hence higher number of LHA/HB claimants in this way.

And you think that's a good thing?

puddy

even Croydon's LHA rates will have to come down, most LAs had a maximum of 5 rooms, obviously that will now be restricted to 4 and event he 4 rooms for croydon will need to come down with the new cap, thats an outer london borough so god knows what the rest will be like

jonewer

£400 a week is a very respectable salary. That some people are given this much taxpayer's money is a travesty.

Jowo_2

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

And you think that's a good thing?

And you think it is odd that boroughs in London with poorer and more needier communities have higher concentrations of people in receipt of LHA?

And do you think its catastrophic that a household may have to move 4 miles or so to their next property?

Wee_Willy_Harris

jonewer wrote: »

£400 a week is a very respectable salary. That some people are given this much taxpayer's money is a travesty.

Absolutly. £7.9 million a year for just one disfunctional family. Shame.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Jowo wrote: »

And you think it is odd that boroughs in London with poorer and more needier communities have higher concentrations of people in receipt of LHA?

And do you think its catastrophic that a household may have to move 4 miles or so to their next property?

As long as it's 4 miles AWAY from those boroughs.

puddy

greenwich and bromley too for their inner calculations

and for all councils, they have to limit their allowances to 4 beds, so only the maximum of their 4 bed rates will now apply whereas it was previously 5 beds, so for those tenants who are in 5 beds (and there will be some), their benefit will be cut