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Originally Posted by techguyone
The 2 biggest problems seem to revolve around the payment of rent to the claimant direct rather than to the landlord (madness) and the arbitrarily 6? 4? week enforced 'waiting time' at the start, what's that all about? Is it needed, how are people with little/no savings supposed to to go without any funds for that time period without any consequence, struggling to understand why that decision was made.
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For many people rent was always paid direct to the claimant/tenant. No different to the situation they would be in if they were working.
Where people are moving from being employed and paid monthly to being on benefits, then they will usually have a months worth of money, either in their pocket or yet to come. Nothing that new in there being a delay.
A central problem is that people are too unwilling to do any budgeting and if they have £1 in their pocket they will spend it, rather than consider that they might need it next week. An example is where rent is paid out weekly, but UC payments are monthly. There is a mismatch between money having to go out and money for rent coming in.
The idea of a single working-age benefit was put forward in a DWP report from 2009.