benefit cap and rents

The_White_Horse

don't people realise that all the landlords will just have to lower their rent expectations??? no one (or very few) will be made homeless.

until now, the landlord just raised the rent and the idiot government just paid it.

McKneff

Just exactly what I thought, if people cant afford these rents, they will move somewhere cheaper, then we will have whole areas of empty rental properties, if they want to get rent for them, lowering the rent should be their only option.

One fella on the TV a couple of weeks ago said his rented flat in london was £1200 a WEEK and it was paid for in full by the council,
now that is just taking the P is s

Blackpool_Saver

I've been reading all this stuff and am still not sure how it works, does this £26,000 include HB, ie is it all bens except disability ones, because if it is it really will be bad news for lone parents....

HappyMJ

Most people who rent actually do have a job so the link between landlords raising rents and the government paying rents does not exist.

It's not the landlord's that will have to lower their expectations it's the tenants who will have to find a cheap place to rent rather than a moderate place to rent which really only people who work can afford.

Blackpool_Saver

does someone have a link to exactly how this will work, thank the lord I only have one dependant.......

Killmark

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

I've been reading all this stuff and am still not sure how it works, does this £26,000 include HB, ie is it all bens except disability ones, because if it is it really will be bad news for lone parents....

Yes it would include HB/LHA.

I was also reading on the BBC news site that the proposed cap for a single person household (without children) was going to be £350 so £18,200 (equivalent to a £23,300 gross wage).

I'm very much in favour of such caps, I got sick at tired of working for the JCP and seeing lone parents who received more in benefits then my gross wage (and whilst renting my own family entitlement was £10 pw in CTC).

The average amount of benefits a lone parent receives in my area is £21,000 (net).

Killmark

HappyMJ wrote: »

Most people who rent actually do have a job so the link between landlords raising rents and the government paying rents does not exist.

In my area whenever LHA went up so did the cheaper rents and so it was a cycle with ever increasing rents.

custardy

McKneff wrote: »

Just exactly what I thought, if people cant afford these rents, they will move somewhere cheaper, then we will have whole areas of empty rental properties, if they want to get rent for them, lowering the rent should be their only option.

One fella on the TV a couple of weeks ago said his rented flat in london was £1200 a WEEK and it was paid for in full by the council,
now that is just taking the P is s

which is the norm for those living on a wage
Its strange the concept seems alien for state funded rents

custardy

Killmark wrote: »

Yes it would include HB/LHA.

I was also reading on the BBC news site that the proposed cap for a single parent household was going to be £350 so £18,200 (equivalent to a £23,300 gross wage).

I'm very much in favour of such caps, I got sick at tired of working for the JCP and seeing lone parents who received more in benefits then my gross wage (and whilst renting my own family entitlement was £10 pw in CTC).

The average amount of benefits a lone parent receives in my area is £21,000 (net).

and £18.2 seems a fair amount
not a fortune but a perfectly livable amount

pqrdef

HappyMJ wrote: »

It's not the landlord's that will have to lower their expectations it's the tenants who will have to find a cheap place to rent.

Oh goody - the return of the slum.

Blackpool_Saver

Killmark wrote: »

Yes it would include HB/LHA.

I was also reading on the BBC news site that the proposed cap for a single parent household was going to be £350 so £18,200 (equivalent to a £23,300 gross wage).

I'm very much in favour of such caps, I got sick at tired of working for the JCP and seeing lone parents who received more in benefits then my gross wage (and whilst renting my own family entitlement was £10 pw in CTC).

The average amount of benefits a lone parent receives in my area is £21,000 (net).

Would that be the cap if they had one child or five? I mean will they get the same amount?

Edited to add, have read a bit more now, but still can't get any full explanation, it says £500 per week for people with children and £350 for people without, not including disability claims, I wonder if that includes council tax?