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Originally Posted by Anonymouse
Why the government, to use the term very loosely, thinks it's better to pay housing benefit to the claimant is unclear. I can only assume they're saving money on admin by doing away with housing benefit. In other words, it benefits them, not us.[/FONT]
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It's always been the case that the money you get is yours to do with as you will ,a claimant has always had the option to either get the money in full or have rent money paid directly to a landlord (even in private rents) .It has always been considered normal practice to pay council tenants directly because the HB came from the council and went to the council in rent so it took minimal administration .Nowadays it's different because most LA's use private housing companies to manage stock and there are a lot more private tenants .Also it gives tenants more control over the landlord should there be issues with quality of housing.
My son claimed UC for about 3 weeks at the start of the year (signed off in 1st week of feb),he got a job and 2 monthly pay checks before he got any money and last week he got a letter stating that his change of circumstances meant he wouldn't get any more money he phoned up to query it and was told "we are a bit behind"
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Originally Posted by Jayo
This system is severely flawed, leaves you in debt everywhere, landlord, borrowings to survive etc.
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Have to say the new system does seem to move as fast as continental drift ,but as far as housing benefit is concerned that has always taken about 6-8 weeks to get going so no change there