Discretionary Housing Payments

lacoole

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Pushing the troll to one side - presumably DHP has to be a short term initiative or there would be no point in cutting LHA allowances.

Its been available for years and long term

As previously stated it is discretionary depending on your circumstances

Coolie

BTW what do you mean by Troll??

CIS

DHP's are a bit of a pain for L/A's trying to balance the payments - I know of a case recently which would have wiped out the remaining balance of the years budget in once (were looking well in to thousands of pounds) if it had been paid as requested.

There's too little money and too many claimants. It is though, after all,only meant to cover the circs that fall outside of the normal HB rules and even then its meant to cover only in cases where hardship would occur and then primarily only until someone can get themselves sorted.

sunnyone

Please stop feeding the troll.

MissMoneypenny

Kimitatsu wrote: »

If DHP is not awarded then the landlord will have to issue at least 2 months notice (or the tenant will either way for a lease of more than 6 months) so it will not be an overnight issue.

Not always. Some unscrupulous landlords or letting agents issue a Section21 (the 2 months notice you mention) at the start of a tenancy, thereby getting around the spirit of law of giving the 2months notice. Google sword of damocles.

However, if they issue the section 21 before they have protected the deposit in one of the deposit schemes, then the S21 in not legal.

emsywoo123

dmg24 wrote: »

Has anybody else noticed that when Coolie logged off, GreedyCheater aka angel89 suddenly came back online? Methinks somebody is worried about their entitlement ...

Yay at last I spotted 2 of angel's AE's........woo hoo I am getting better

Kimitatsu

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

Not always. Some unscrupulous landlords or letting agents issue a Section21 (the 2 months notice you mention) at the start of a tenancy, thereby getting around the spirit of law of giving the 2months notice. Google sword of damocles.

However, if they issue the section 21 before they have protected the deposit in one of the deposit schemes, then the S21 in not legal.

I know that - and are we not all waiting for the precedence to be tried in court!! Totally off topic now though but there have been some rulings that if the S21 has been issued more then 12 months earlier then they are invalid but it doesnt seem to be uniform....in the case of lacoolie as he has had a tenancy for 5 years then this would be difficult to uphold, but I know what you are saying!

lacoole

Boris to the rescue

I think I am in love and so is my brother!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11640219