Just 5000 people exceed new maximum housing benefit

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Department for Work and Pensions figures show that 5,170 people currently receive more than £400 a week in housing benefit to help pay rent to private landlords.

The Chartered Institute of Housing said families renting in smart areas of places like central London, Bristol and Cambridge would be hit hardest.

Howard Farrand, the institute’s president, said: “They [the changes] will impact on the ability of worse-off families to live in more affluent areas, possibly forcing people to leave communities where they have lived for years.

“They could also see landlords avoiding letting their properties to people who are in receipt of housing benefit due to the risk of housing benefit being cut.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/budget/7849515/Budget-2010-thousands-could-be-evicted-because-of-80-per-cent-cut-to-housing-benefit.html

5k out of several million privately rented houses.

Not exactly earth shattering.

chucky

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/budget/7849515/Budget-2010-thousands-could-be-evicted-because-of-80-per-cent-cut-to-housing-benefit.html

5k out of several million privately rented houses.

Not exactly earth shattering.

it doesn't matter whether this is true or not - the usual frothers sitting on top of Hope Mountain will be telling you house prices having been falling for months and months 'round their local area'.

this type of info won't change their cult thinking

Dirk_Rambo

i reckon the axing of excessive housing benefits claims will speed up the falls in house prices already witnessed round my way. this is yet another hammer blow to the already fragile housing market

1984ReturnsForReal_2

chucky wrote: »

it doesn't matter whether this is true or not - the usual frothers sitting on top of Hope Mountain will be telling you house prices having been falling for months and months 'round their local area'.

this type of info won't change their cult thinking

Lets face it.


One family getting £104k (circa £160k before tax equiv) is one too many...

silvercar

What about the people who receive some contribution to a rent above £400 a week, who will be taken off LHA completely as a result of this change?

Generali

Where's the £1,800,000,000 saving then? Are the Tories lying or is the article being disingenuous?

Generali

Ah, I see, it's a selective quotation:

Department for Work and Pensions figures show that 5,170 people currently receive more than £400 a week in housing benefit to help pay rent to private landlords.

That is not the same thing as 5,000 getting more in housing benefit than the new limit. Not the same thing at all. Naughty boy Hamish_McTavish!

puddy

but how many people are receiving over the maximum for each size property, the budget included maximums for 1, 2, 3 and 4 beds, how many people are receiving over the maximums for each of them

chucky

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

Lets face it.


One family getting £104k (circa £160k before tax equiv) is one too many...

Or we could you use the media exaggerated version

Thousands of people could be thrown out of their homes after housing benefit was slashed by up to four-fifths in the emergency Budget.

Experts said it was likely thousands of people renting from private landlords would have to find alternative accommodation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/budget/7849515/Budget-2010-thousands-could-be-evicted-because-of-80-per-cent-cut-to-housing-benefit.html

the problem is that it doesn't include the number of people that will need to move because there housing benefit will be reduced.

puddy

and in any case its more indepth than that, the new limits will be on the 30th percentile of the average rent (so lower than now) and for claimants in receipt of jsa for more than 12 months, their award will be lowered to 90% of what it was previously,, so that is a huge cut

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Generali wrote: »

That is not the same thing as 5,000 getting more in housing benefit than the new limit. Not the same thing at all.

:rotfl:

Thats not what I said......

What I said was "just 5000 people exceed new maximum housing benefit".

Which is absolutely correct.

Naughty boy Hamish_McTavish!

Well I can't disagree there.....:D