Personal Independence Payment (PIP) & Private Landlords

Saga

Has anyone ever heard concrete evidence of or suffered the grossly unfortunate fate of being served a no-fault eviction or similar or been refused a tenancy when the landlord or letting agent somehow found out they had applied for or was in receipt of a PIP - and specifically only PIP (or the older DLA), not ESA or UC?

Are there ways - modern equivalents of "black books" - that landlord & LAs share info to somehow warn each other of PIP/DLA renters.

rosewalk

How would a landlord or letting agency know that someone had applied or was receiving PIP? 

poppy12345

There would be no way of them knowing unless you told them. I’ve never told any of my past LLs that I claim it. I live in social housing now and they know. 

HillStreetBlues

There will be no "black book" as it would open up the letter agent to a fine.
That's not to say disabled people aren't discriminated against when it come to private rental, but there won't be anything in black & white. 

Newcad

You will not find such 'concrete evidence'. (I assume that you are thinking of shouting 'discrimination'?).

The very nature of a S21 notice is that no reason need to be given for why the landlord wants their property back.

So no reason is even recorded why, and anything else is just specualtion.
The only person who could say why an S21 has been issued is the LL themself.

I do know that in the current financial and regulatory climate many landlords are selling up and getting out of domestic rentals, so more S21 are being issued simply so they then have an empty property which will sell for more than one with a sitting tenant.
It's simply economics with no discrimination involved.
https://thenegotiator.co.uk/landlords-exodus-revealed-in-government-figures/

PS. As a personal example, I wasn't evicted from my last rental, but within 2-days of my telling my landlord that I was moving out it was on the market for sale with vacant possession, he also had a number of other domestic rental  properties but has now left the domestic rental market altogether. (That previously 3-bedroom town centre property has now been entirely converted into a business premises by the person who bought it)

Saga

Newcad said:

. (I assume that you are thinking of shouting 'discrimination'?).

Not at all. A colleague's niece is in two minds about applying for PIP but is very worried about doing so precipitating her eviction through her private LL somehow finding out.

Newcad

Personally I would not worry

If anything is said about her claiming PIP (it won't be) then simply point out that with more money coming in from PIP then the tenant will be better off and rent arrears are less likely to happen.

Some private landlords do get a worry that they will somehow be suddenly "made to pay" for disability adaptations.

That doesn't happen at all, any such needed adpaptations have to be agreed to by the LL (they can refuse if the changes would be unreasonable) but the cost is bourne by the tenant themselves or by Social Services.

Eg. If a wheelchair ramp is needed then the LL would be asked to agree to allow it but wouldn't be "made" or even expected to pay for it.