Rent arrears, in socila housing, to become new normality?

BitterAndTwisted

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

Didn't the government also introduce a change where rent was paid to the tenant to pass on to landlord instead of paying landlord direct?

If so, could this not be the main cause?

In private tenancies the rent is paid direct to the tenant via LHA but in social housing the housing benefit is not. It's just dealt with as an adjustment on the rent-account.

What's going to happen once tenants get into rent-arrears and can't pay them off? Eviction most likely. Expect people to be lobbing bricks at policemen in the streets once this starts.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

In private tenancies the rent is paid direct to the tenant via LHA but in social housing the housing benefit is not. It's just dealt with as an adjustment on the rent-account.

What's going to happen once tenants get into rent-arrears and can't pay them off? Eviction most likely. Expect people to be lobbing bricks at policemen in the streets once this starts.

And hopefully the police will get stuck in and teach those law breakers a lesson.

grizzly1911

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

And hopefully the police will get stuck in and teach those law breakers a lesson.

As one claimant said last night if it it is choice between, heat or paying extra for a box room it is not surprising which comes last.

Do the energy companies help with bill for those in real need?

I wonder whop pays the full whack for their energy bills? The energy company shareholders or us the customer?

There are food banks too. Anyone know why the government stopped recording why people are using food banks? Was it to do with evidence suggesting it was due to delays in receipt due to recent benefit changes?
Or was it because they recipients are just addicts or people who are financially illiterate as one S.Wales conservative MP seems to think?

Or as Lord Freud put it simply because there are more food banks.
Challenged by the Bishop of Truro, the Rt Rev Tim Thornton, over whether ministers conceded a link between the benefits system and food bank use, Lord Freud replied that it was difficult to “make the causal connections”. The minister for welfare reform added: “It is difficult to know which came first – supply or demand.”
Later, Lord Freud, a former investment banker, came under fire from charities for being out of touch with the reality of life on the breadline. Campaigners recently warned that more than 500,000 Britons were using food banks because of a combination of benefit cuts, falling wages and the economic downturn.
Chris Mould, the executive chairman of the Trussell Trust, which runs 325 food banks, said: “The only people who seem unable to accept there is a social crisis driven by the cost of living is the Government.”


Maybe Welsby sums it?

"When a series of other things are combined, notably reductions in benefit to take account of what is seen as excess house space - the so-called bedroom tax - higher costs for energy, and for many the fact that with CPAs (continuous payment authorities) short-term lenders can take money direct from an account within hours of it coming in, suddenly the problem and possibility of growing a large-scale arrears becomes very serious.
"A sense, more seriously, of instability for people in already tough places becomes more and more real."



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10323427/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-eyes-housing-association-coalition.html