Social housing and changes to housing benefit

NeilCr

Is your friend getting Carers Allowance?

superbigal36

No you misunderstand.
Mother could move out of sheltered house and in with poster.
Everyone including taxpayer benefits ?

HappyMJ

superbigal36 wrote: »

No you misunderstand.
Mother could move out of sheltered house and in with poster.
Everyone including taxpayer benefits ?

I understand you. My guess is that Mother needs the sheltered housing and cannot move out into a house with no on site warden, no emergency pull cord, no common lounge area, no social events and several other advantages that a sheltered housing scheme offers.

sunshine1980

HappyMJ wrote: »

Eventually, yes. There will be transitional protection and she ca apply for discretionary housing benefit whilst looking for somewhere cheaper although you know as well as me that 1 bedroom properties at or under the LHA rate are very rare. Most properties in my area seem to be a minimum of 2 bedrooms.

What transitional protection will be offered and what does it mean exactly? I read that the lower housing benefit payments will come into force in April next year. Is this the case?

nannytone_2

superbigal36 wrote: »

Mother could move in with her.

my friend is in a second floor flat.
the mother wouldn't be able to use the stairs and in the case of an emergency, would be stuck.
also my friend doesn't want her mother to pass away in the lace she lives and also needs somewhere to escape from the stress of caring.

mmmm61

its only for new tenancy from april 2016

Housing_Benefit_Officer

It will impact domestic violence refuges, homeless hostels and sheltered housing for those with physical, mental health, learning and sensory disabilities. Hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable in society will be impacted.

The thinking in my local council is our social services will incur £millions of additional costs providing care and support so the burden is changed from the national tax pot to the local taxpayer.

sunshine1980

So is it the case that it is only for new social housing tenants from April 16 onwards and current tenants will still get the current rate?

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Thinking about it, it will affect the emergency housing I am soon to go into (being evicted, and have no where to go due to the nonexistence of private housing LL's who will rent to HLA tenants). But the rent for emergency housing (even council stock) is a lot higher than normal council rents. Not sure how that will be covered.

I remember many years ago I was in one room accommodation emergency housing - rent was £380 a week. Council rent for 3 bed flat was £100 a week. Yes there was a cleaner who came for an hour a day, and a manager who was hardly there, but how the council could charge itself so much rent I never quite worked out. The cleaner was so useless I ended up doing it all. Lets just say people didn't use the loo very well (scrubbed the walls with bleach with gloves on), the bath was condemned, I used vim, rubber gloves and a limescale remover (was enamelled bath so no damage), few hours work and it was gleaming! Manager had had it assessed by some team and they'd condemned it as uncleanable. And I was six months pregnant with cramps all the time lol.

squinty

Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »

It will impact domestic violence refuges, homeless hostels and sheltered housing for those with physical, mental health, learning and sensory disabilities. Hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable in society will be impacted.

The thinking in my local council is our social services will incur £millions of additional costs providing care and support so the burden is changed from the national tax pot to the local taxpayer.

Excellent point

Also remember that the government did offer a 10 year rent deal for social housing, which allowed landlords to plan. This was replaced after only one year with a compulsory rent reduction. Meaning, there is no spare funding to meet these extra charges

Also, the biggest losers under the new rules will be single people under 35 who will only be entitled to the shared room rate. Which will include many in the groups you have identified,