Welfare CUTS-Housing Benefit 100% abolished?-Tenents forced to pay 100% Full rent?

gemmaking

"The Tories could cut housing benefit in their £12bn welfare crackdown by making all tenants pay towards their rent, it's been claimed."

www.scottishhousingnews.com/4328/housing-benefit-cuts-considered-as-part-of-12bn-welfare-savings/


Hey, in this article about a possible cut being to housing benefit.

If it does go through, do they mean they would stop paying every current housing benefit claimant their housing benefit (and abolish the whole housing benefit) making the tenant have to pay 100% of their rent?

Which would make the tenant have to find money to pay his rent (if the government took away all of the housing benefit) ??

HappyMJ

gemmaking wrote: »

www.scottishhousingnews.com/4328/housing-benefit-cuts-considered-as-part-of-12bn-welfare-savings/


Hey, in this article about a possible cut being to housing benefit.

If it does go through, do they mean they would stop paying every current housing benefit claimant their housing benefit (and abolish the whole housing benefit) making the tenant have to pay 100% of their rent?

Which would make the tenant have to find money to pay his rent (if the government took away all of the housing benefit) ??

No...

It's saying ask the tenant to contibute 10% of the rent from other benefit income. For example....The LHA rate for a 2 bedroom property in my area is £450 per month...I pay £475. If I were entitled to 2 bedroom rate of LHA and on benefits my contribution towards my rent from benefit income would increase from £25 to £47.50.

KxMx

Abolishing 100% HB doesn't mean the tenant then has to pay 100%. It might be that the maximum HB for everyone is 70% so the tenant would have to pay 30%- purely as example.

[Deleted User]

the 10% bit seems to be truth not rumour now

carlislelass

We already pay 10%

SailorSam

Nobody knows until George stands up and tells us of his plans.

Marktheshark

At the end of the day people with Jobs voted to end benefit scrounging.
The trouble is to the tories, people with jobs claiming benefits such as rent, council tax, tax credits are benefit scroungers just like the rest.
And all in the same pot you go, with all the other scroungers.
The turkeys will get the Christmas the begged for.

rogerblack

Marktheshark wrote: »

At the end of the day people with Jobs voted to end benefit scrounging.
The trouble is to the tories, people with jobs claiming benefits such as rent, council tax, tax credits are benefit scroungers just like the rest.
And all in the same pot you go, with all the other scroungers.

As are people working 50/52 weeks last year.
(Not exempt from the benefit cap).
I looked for figures showing average length of employment versus wage - I could not find it.
I suspect this basically means comparatively few people with low waged employment will ever be exempt from the benefit cap.

https://speye.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/osborne-and-ids-conspire-to-kill-social-housing-says-bbc/ is depressingly factual.

Richie-from-the-Boro

The same excellently researched site says that 66 mi££ion per day, that's 24 bi££ion per year in ‘welfare’ goes unclaimed and the council of Europe I]not the EU[/I said just last week that UK Pensions, Incapacity and Job Seeker Allowance levels are MANIFESTLY UNJUST or not just low but shockingly low.