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Government respond to UN on welfare and housing
Housing Minister Kris Hopkins has responded to the United Nations Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik report on UK housing, according to Housemark Kris Hopkins said he was “disappointed that…
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Defining bedrooms
Gareth Morgan, has posted on Linked in, the following useful information on defining bedrooms under welfare reform changes from the upper tribunal (UT): “I…
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Universal Pathfinder statistics
The Department for Work and Pensions has published its second set of experimental Universal Credit pathfinder statistics. The figures, covering the period from April 2013…
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Discretionary Housing Payments for LAs for 2014-5
The Department for Work and Pensions has revealed the discretionary housing payment allocations for councils in 2014/15. As announced in the autumn statement in December, the…
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Guide for street parties dispells some myths
An interactive guide to organising street parties and community events has been published in a bid to abolish the myths surrounding such occasions. The guide…
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Bedrom tax appeal successful for very small room
An unused room under 50 square feet should not lead to tenants being penalised by the bedroom tax, a tribunal judge has ruled, according…
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Unintended benefit cuts
Councils are cutting off housing benefit payments to tenants who are entitled to receive them, as an unintended consequence of sanctions applied to other…
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Debate over bedrrom tax loophole
Housing experts are split over how many tenants they think could temporarily escape the bedroom tax as a result of a technical error by…
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Bedroom tax loophole to close in March 2014
The minister for welfare reform Lord Freud has confirmed that the housing benefit loophole that exempts certain long standing tenants from the bedroom tax will be…
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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…
