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Housing Benefit And Rent Payments

Information about Housing Allowance and Housing Benefit Payments for private landlords

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Rent Payment Cards For Hosing Benefit Tenants
The Rent Management Service now includes the distribution of rent payment cards to all tenants of our landlord clients. The rent payment cards allow an individual to make their rent payment in cash at ant Post Office, PayPoint outlet or Wooloworths store in the UK. The rent payment cards are a p ...
Which Housing Benefit Rates Will Apply To Tenants?
The maximum Housing Benefit will be the Local Housing Allowance rate for the number of bedrooms a tenant needs in the Broad Rental Market Area in which they live. The Rent Service will publish new rates of Local Housing Allowance each month. The rate that will apply to tenant’s claims wil ...
Which Housing Benefit Rates Will Apply To Tenants?
The maximum Housing Benefit will be the Local Housing Allowance rate for the number of bedrooms a tenant needs in the Broad Rental Market Area in which they live. The Rent Service will publish new rates of Local Housing Allowance each month. The rate that will apply to tenant’s claims wil ...
What Is A Broad Rental Market Area?
The Rent Service has divided the country into Broad Rental Market Areas. These are made up of a number of neighbourhoods. In this area there will be a wide mix of property types within a reasonable distance of various public amenities such as health, education, recreation, personal banking and ...
How Will Local Housing Allowance Work In Practice?
The maximum amount of Housing Benefit your tenant could receive will be set in advance by the Rent Officer. It will not depend on the amount of rent you charge. The maximum amount they could receive will be the same for every household of the same size in the area in which they live, regardless ...
Will Tenants Existing Housing Benefit Payments Change?
No they will not. Anybody already receiving Housing Benefit will not be affected by the changes. Their Housing Benefit will continue under the existing rules and you as the landlord can continue to receive the payments if this is what your tenant has chosen. When your tenant changes address (ev ...
Who Will Be Effected By Local Housing Allowance?
Local Housing Allowance only applies to new benefit claims received on or after 7th April 2008. It will not apply to tenants of housing associations or those tenants living in caravans or mobile homes. These groups will still have their Housing Benefit worked out under the existing rules. If b ...
What Is Local Housing Allowance?
Local Housing Allowance is the new way of working out how much Housing Benefit a tenant should be entitled to and replaces the old Rent Officer decisions for new claimants moving forward from April 2008. To learn more about the Rent Management Service please either speak with one of our busines ...
Will my tenants Housing Benefit still continue to be paid to landlords after April 2008?
One of the changes under the new rules is that Housing Benefit will almost always be paid direct to tenants. It will then be their responsibility to make sure that they pay you the right amount at the right time just as if they were not receiving any benefit. We will be giving advice to customer ...