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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
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.
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I agree. This is something I get from desperate people worrying about how they will pay their rent. Desperate people who seem never to have the right points level to bid for social housing as few one bed places are available. So they are stuck with privately renting a two bed place and trying to find the shortfall, a shortfall which is likely to get bigger as they lose benefits.
So they are not the feckless breeders living in mansions as the Daily Wail would have us believe.