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DHP payments to those who are no linger subject to bedrooms tax
Tenants affected by a bedroom tax loophole are likely to be able to keep cash they have received from a hardship fund in addition…
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Carers get fresh hope of relief from the bedroom tax
Tenants who live with a person requiring an overnight carer have been given fresh hope of challenging the bedroom tax following a first-tier tribunal…
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Loophole to escape bedroom tax?
The LG chronicle has reported on an urgent circular which might exempt many people from the bedroom tax an entitle them to back pay:…
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News from SITRA on supported housing and Welfare Reform
Sitra met civil servants on Monday last week to hear how the Government was progressing with plans to protect supported housing more widely against…
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Bedroom Tax Loophole?
Housing benefit regulations introduced in March 2006 protect tenants who have claimed continuously since January 1996. Mr Duncan Smith’s Department for Work and Pensions…
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705 of LAs committed to payout less than half of Discretionary Payments
Official government figures show 70 per cent of councils committed to pay out less than half their emergency hardship fund pots by the midpoint…
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Latest update on the Universal Credit direct payment programme
The latest update on progress with the six UK direct payment demonstration projects shows that 94% of rental income is coming in, and a…
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Bedroom Tax – different support in different areas of the country
People hit by the bedroom tax in different parts of England have wildly varying chances of receiving Government help, a new survey has found, according to…
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Victory in shared housing bedroom tax appeal
A disabled man who spends two or three nights a week at his mother’s house occupies the property for bedroom tax purposes, a tribunal…
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Exploring change in allocations process
CIH carried out reserach in October 2013 to explore the impact of changes such as welfare and tenure reform on the allocations process. This…
