Sentences with phrase «of housing benefit»

Never mind how people in receipt of housing benefit would then be able to meet mortgage payments, even at a reduced rate of interest.

It also meant that instead of losing 14 per cent of her housing benefit for one spare bedroom she would now lose 25 per cent for two rooms.

A key concern for the overall cost of the housing benefit bill is the question of who pays for the 80 % of market rate properties.

In the past she had been assisted with her rent by payments of housing benefit.

In this case a change in the amount of housing benefit reduction was made in error.

If we built half a million new council houses, then we wouldn't need to give so much money to private landlords in the form of housing benefit.

What isn't clear is if this is a result of fewer teachers and administrators living on campus and taking advantage of housing benefits, or if boarding schools are just increasing their salaries.

# 1.5 bn to remove seven - day waiting period; new claimants in receipt of housing benefit will get it for two weeks.

Housing is far too expensive and has pushed up the cost of housing benefit, while house building is at its lowest level since the 1920s.

Another issue was the proposed direct payment of housing benefit to the individual instead of to the landlord.

Oral Questions - Assisting families facing homelessness as a result of housing benefit changes due in April - Baroness Turner of Camden; Face - to - face careers guidance for all young people in schools - Baroness Jones of Whitchurch; Effects of local council tax support schemes on poverty - Lord McKenzie of Luton; Representations received from the public on the negotiations for the new EU budget perspective period to 2020 - Lord Dykes

A homelessness fund will mean that unlike in neighbouring boroughs, poor people will not be shipped out of London as a result of housing benefit changes.

Under the terms of the bedroom tax, tenants lose 14 per cent of their housing benefit if they have a spare bedroom, and 25 per cent for two or more unoccupied spare rooms.

Crisis has long called for reform of housing benefit to better support housing stability and to remove barriers to work.

We are going to ensure that we mitigate the impact of this housing benefit cap in London.

Greg Beales, Shelter's campaign director, said: «The withdrawal of housing benefit for 18 - 21s put young people at real risk of homelessness.

Speaking to the BBC, the Mayor used the phrase to stress that he would not see poorer people forced out of London as a result of the housing benefit cap.

Abolition of student maintenance grants, abolition of child benefit for more than two children, cuts in the Employment and Support Allowance (a benefit designed for the sick or disabled), and the abolition of housing benefit for under 21s are all vicious policies.

Labour's motion called on the government to revise its plans for people who are on unemployment benefit for over 12 months to lose ten per cent of their housing benefit.

Local Housing Allowance rates, that are a central component of Housing Benefit, will be uprated in line with the existing policy next April and then we will cap increases at 1pc in the two years after that.

«Despite all the scaremongering, research now shows that of those housing benefit claimants affected by the cap, a third said they would now be looking for a job,» work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith wrote in a letter to the Daily Mail.

I was talking to Steve in a week that various aspects of housing benefit were dominating the news.

Between 2010 and 2015 the generosity of Housing Benefit was reduced by # 2billion, yet the overall Housing Benefit bill still increased by # 1 billion as a result of rents rising faster than earnings and more people living in the private rented sector claiming housing benefit.

The Tories are, as with most of their proposed cuts, using the opportunity to portray the recipients of housing benefit as the undeserving poor, to be contrasted with and despised by the squeezed middle.

Iain Duncan Smith will this week announce that families will not lose large chunks of their housing benefit from April next year, as first announced, but will, in fact, have until the following year to arrange somewhere cheaper to live.

From April, working - age people renting from councils or housing associations face losing up to a quarter of their housing benefit if officials decide they have more bedrooms than they need.

What are hard - working people who travel long distances to get into work and pay their taxes meant to think when they see families — individual families — getting 40, 50, 60 thousand pounds of housing benefit to live in homes that these hard working people could never afford themselves?

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

The Welfare Reform Act 2007 introduced changes to the administration of Housing Benefit (HB) with the national roll - out of LHA to the private rented sector, and an HB sanction for people who refused to engage in rehabilitation following eviction for anti-social behaviour.

«Single parents struggling to make ends meet are taking the brunt of the government's failure to address the underlying cause of housing benefit rises: the shortage of affordable housing,» chief executive Fiona Weir commented.

Because young families also need a room for their children, it is those young parents, mostly single mums in their twenties, who claim the large majority of the housing benefit that Cameron is seeking to cut.

He argued rents in the private rented sector had been soaring because landlords knew a tenant's rent would be funded by the state through a local housing allowance, the equivalent of housing benefit in the private rented sector.

«Abbott also predicted that, «I am going to see thousands of people in London evicted precisely as a consequence of these housing benefit changes.»

If your debt is an overpayment of Housing Benefit, contact your local council, which has a similar kind of discretion not to recover the debt.

Mr Kambery was of the opinion that this resulted in discriminatory treatment between him, a third country national, and Union citizens since the funding of those housing benefits was split in two categories namely Union citizens and third country nationals and only the funds for the latter category were exhausted.

It argues the changes are contrary to the fundamental purpose of the housing benefit scheme and the cuts will disproportionately affect lone parents and ethnic minorities and contravene the government's equality duties.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

Boris Johnson provoked fury in Downing Street yesterday as he warned that Coalition reforms of housing benefit would lead to a «Kosovo - style social cleansing» of the poor from city centres.

His lordship left aside the payment of rent for individual tenants by way of housing benefit, which was of no real significance.

«Labour voted against the benefit cap, against reducing the cost of housing benefit, against universal credit and now Labour will vote against the uprating bill in the new year.»

If you are responsible for the bedroom tax, the benefit cap, the withdrawal of housing benefit and the slashing of the Employment and Support Allowance, it would not be a struggle to support cuts to Personal Independence Payments (PIP).

While spending on the NHS and the state pension is among the most popular (and the over-65s are the most likely age group to vote), few will object to the abolition of housing benefit for the under - 25s (the least likely age group to vote).

I hadn't heard of Emily Davey, but her biog and housing expertise offers some clues as to why Ed Davey might be well informed about the impacts of the housing benefit changes.

The department's impact assessment indicates that all LHA households will lose as a result of the housing benefit cuts.