housing benefit for under 25s if disabled

Richie-from-the-Boro

- current HB rates vary for different single person ages between 18 and 25 because they link to age 18 not age 25
- UC will have just 4 rates instead of the current 15 ESA rates
- the actual rates are to be [should -maybe ] decided later this year
- under 25 couple rate will be about 60% higher than the single rate in line with the usual ratio between single and couple rates
- over 25 will equate to the equivalent rates in JSA

-how it pans out / ther rates / the politics / the real world - we will just have to wait and see

Richie-from-the-Boro

The under 25's in general and the disabled under 25's in particular will have their JSA applications handled by yet one more a~n~other private contrctor called Capita

- and on the subject of JSA, U25's, and HB
- even the JSA application is being privatised
- the DWP will outsource the online application [JSAOL]
- from September this year