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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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Judges rule against benefits for absent disabled people when in hospital for over 52 weeks
It is lawful to discriminate against tenants with disabilities by removing their housing benefit if their home is left unoccupied for more than a…
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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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IPPR 2013 Policy Impact 2013
IPPR have published their policy impact in 2013 Here it is: On energy policy – rarely out of the news this year – IPPR…
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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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Government must do more to support councils with welfare changes, says NAO report
The Department of Communities and Local Government must do more to satisfy itself that councils can manage the cumulative impact of funding and welfare…
