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Originally Posted by nomadking
Parliamentary Briefing Paper May 2013
Being £10/week adrift might be a budgeting issue, but £100+/week isn't. They are all too often repeat offenders "stealing" the money instead. Otherwise people would quickly realise they have to do something about, but they don't.
HB was being paid direct to many claimants long before 2008 or 2003.
Shelter report Dec 2004
Even before any introduction of LHA, 50% had HB paid direct to them.
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The biggest issue now is the backdating only goes back a month from the first date of claim. So now people have the HB application ready to go when a tenancy is signed.