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16 Landlord Tips For Housing Benefit Tenants
Feb 17th
There has been lengthly raging debates on some forums of late regarding whether landlords should bother to accept housing benefit tenants.
Those who follow me on twitter will know I have participated in many of those discussions.
So I thought I would do a bit of a round up of tips from a landlords point of view,
Guest Blog:DWP Consults On Housing Benefit
Jan 20th
Fellow property and legal blogger Tessa Shepperson has kindly contributed the blog below.
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has now published a report and consultation on housing benefit. The paper sets out the departments thinking on Local Housing Allowance (e.g. direct payment to landlords) and makes interesting reading.
The report starts with a bit of
Landlord Headaches Over Housing Benefit Tenants
Dec 9th
Posted by Roberta in UK Property Market Comment
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Rising unemployment, which now stands at 2.7 million, is likely to cause an even bigger long term housing problem if the rules which were recently changed aren’t returned back to the previous way of doing things.
The changes introduced in April 2008 meant that Local Housing Allowance could now be paid directly to the tenant. I