Problem Tenant in Northern Ireland

Old_Git

Outsider_83 wrote: »

The individual seems to have left, taken their keys with them and left the house in an absolute mess - Granddad is currently trying to gain access -such a terrible situation.

sounds like your granddad didnt have keys ? Did they have a deposit

Old_Git

Cotta wrote: »

Is that really how the benefit system works?

I'm not surprised that a governmental body may have made errors but their apparent lack of interest in correcting thins for your relative is shocking.

The benefit system works as it should .The problem is not the system its the tenants. If the rent is 6 weeks in arrears NIHE will pay the landlord direct ,but only if the landlord asks .

I have one tenant receiving HB ,at my request the HB is paid to her .I know her family situation .She received HB on a wednesday ,Income support Thursday ,Child benefit Friday .Wednesday money she uses to buy electric ,groceries ect .I get paid Friday.I get a text from the bank as soon as its paid .This happens every two weeks. The money has never been late .

qwert_yuiop

Old_Git wrote: »

you can agree a payment plan .

Fifty pence a week for the next 27 years? He’s got no money.

Outsider_83

Old_Git wrote: »

sounds like your granddad didnt have keys ? Did they have a deposit

Deposit yes but it looks like at some point the locks were changed.

Cotta

Old_Git wrote: »

The benefit system works as it should .The problem is not the system its the tenants. If the rent is 6 weeks in arrears NIHE will pay the landlord direct ,but only if the landlord asks .

I have one tenant receiving HB ,at my request the HB is paid to her .I know her family situation .She received HB on a wednesday ,Income support Thursday ,Child benefit Friday .Wednesday money she uses to buy electric ,groceries ect .I get paid Friday.I get a text from the bank as soon as its paid .This happens every two weeks. The money has never been late .

It doesn't seem right that six weeks of arrears have to be accumulated before anything can be done. That means that the landlord is six weeks out of pocket before he even sneezes.

duggan1

Cotta wrote: »

It doesn't seem right that six weeks of arrears have to be accumulated before anything can be done. That means that the landlord is six weeks out of pocket before he even sneezes.

It isn't really the states job to manage the relationship between a private landlord and a private tenant though if we are being fair. If a tenant isn't keeping up with the rent there are legal procedures for recovering the property.

Cotta

duggan1 wrote: »

It isn't really the states job to manage the relationship between a private landlord and a private tenant though if we are being fair. If a tenant isn't keeping up with the rent there are legal procedures for recovering the property.

They aren't effective though, if someone falls behind they are taken to the small claim's court where they are bound to pay back £5 per week and after two weeks stop paying.

duggan1

Those are risks of doing business though. I'm not sure what the alternative is aside from forcing housing benefit to go straight to the landlord.

qwert_yuiop

duggan1 wrote: »

Those are risks of doing business though. I'm not sure what the alternative is aside from forcing housing benefit to go straight to the landlord.

Publicly owned housing? It worked all right for many years.

ballyblack

I'm not sure what the alternative is aside from forcing housing benefit to go straight to the landlord.

What happens then if the benefit is cut or reduced?, the landlord is left losing out