Rubbing our noses in it

osdset

Salary should reflect on skill and ability, unfortunately in a lot of positions especially in local authorities, skill and ability are in absentia.

Dovah_diva

osdset wrote: »

Salary should reflect on skill and ability, unfortunately in a lot of positions especially in local authorities, skill and ability are in absentia.

That's quite the sweeping statement - care to back it up with any facts or figures?

starrystarry

wakram1973 wrote: »

We'll living in a northern mill town its a amazing salary, 40 hours a week at £ 18 per hour would see 40 families not being hit by this barmy bedroom tax and being driven into hardship,maybe adding the salary level could have been left for a later stage, just a thought.......

I live in a "northern mill town" and I earn a similar amount. It's not an astonishingly high salary for a skilled position.

john539

Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »

Once Universal Credit gets rolled out across the Country your Housing Benefit will become Universal Credit and your local Council will no longer have anything to do with Housing Benefit claims.

There will no longer be a local office to go to and instead you will have to phone some call centre speaking to a different person every time.

Local Council Benefits Offices will only deal with Local Council Tax Support schemes.

I can't believe that.

So who is going to check Housing Benefit claims & documentation ?

As far as I know Universal Credit is a wrapper for a number of benefits, but they still need to be checked and for housing, this really must be done in area.

nannytone_2

HMRC will be administering universal credit, so they will check everything in the same way as they do now for tax credits

john539

nannytone wrote: »

HMRC will be administering universal credit, so they will check everything in the same way as they do now for tax credits

How, housing isn't the same as tax, pay, employment.

coffeelover65

john539 wrote: »

I can't believe that.

So who is going to check Housing Benefit claims & documentation ?

As far as I know Universal Credit is a wrapper for a number of benefits, but they still need to be checked and for housing, this really must be done in area.

They system is going to be "digital by default" to make it as cheap as possible. There's a pilot going on at present at a single job centre somewhere using spreadsheets to do the calculations as the UC software is apparently miles behind schedule.

Wages will be reported to the DWP via RTI system (this is where employers send your payment data to HMRC to calculate deductions) and the DWP will access that to calculate UC entitlement monthly.

No idea how they'll deal with other documents like tenancy agreements, bank statements etc. They'll no doubt need more pilots in the future to work all of these things out.

The DWP will be administering UC, not HMRC.

lighting_up_the_chalice

john539 wrote: »

How, housing isn't the same as tax, pay, employment.

Why not? Documentory evidence is provided to both.

dealer_wins

prowla wrote: »

Assuming that the suggestion is that that is a lot, it's about equivalent to £32k salary, which isn't a lot in London.
Given that it's a short-term contract, it's not exactly living it up in whoopy-doo land!

It is a lot even in London!!

(Unless your on £500 a week benefits I suppose!!

ska_lover

I wouldn't do that job for £18 an hour.

I can