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Originally Posted by Angua
The issue seems to be more with Housing as this really is where much of the Benefit disagreement lies. Rather than coal face benefits for those who genuinely need it. Sadly there has been a lot of knee jerk reactions by the government fuelled by papers such as the Daily Fail. The disabled have been the hardest hit by such as ATOS. LHA takes no account of regional differences such as the proportion of social housing to private rentals & the corresponding lower LHA that results.
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Housing it seems is highly variable. Round here one would be hard pressed to find something that would take benefit to obscene levels.
LHA seems in short a con, it was sold as quick to process and add indepency however the former may be true, the latter is no different to housing benefit but the disadvantage of LHA is it typically is less generous than housing benefit and leaves people short of their rent. I checked the rate for my area and it would only cover about 2/3 of my rent, and I am in the lower end of the market. I assume this is because they include housing association rents which of course distort the figures. I also read somewhere there was further distortion by them changing how its calcuated.