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Originally Posted by Hugh
Just to clarify, it's 30% of the local market rate, not the average of the bottom 30% - that would setting 30% as the top of the scale, and working out the median below that, which isn't happening.
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if its what you say that makes no sense.
so if the average rent for an area is eg. £400 a month they would only get about £133 a month in rent support?
no one is going to find a property for rent £133 a month in an area with an average of £400.
I am fairly sure its the average of the lowest 30%, and that is bad enough on its own as it is also not realistic.
local housing allowance itself I think hasnt suffered from this abuse, its only the old housing benefit system, so they have no real reason to reduce local housing allowance. I looked for my sister and found out the LHA rate for an area she wanted to move to, the LHA rate for a 2 bed house (on current benefits before this kicks in) was way too low for 'anything' on the market. The LHA rate was £520 a month, the cheapest property we found was £590 a month and the average I would say was about £650 a month. The reason been is they include housing association properties which moves it down a lot.