Author: Great Britain. Department of Social SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Non-dependant Deductions in Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Author: Great Britain. Department of Social SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Paying for Rented Housing
Author: Sharon WitherspoonPublisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN:
Category : Housing subsidies
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Claimants of Housing Benefit who share their homes with adults other than their husbands, wives or partners may be liable for a reduction in their Housing Benefit; the reduction is due to non-dependent deductions. What are the characteristics of such households? What are the financial relationships between claimants and non-dependents? What are the effects of non-dependent deductions on households? How well do people understand the deductions? This report, the result of in-depth interviews amongst households affected by non-dependent deductions, quantitative surveys of claimants and their non-dependants, and interviews with local authority Housing Benefit managers, answers the questions.
Report of the Social Security Advisory Committee on Non Dependant Deductions from Housing Benefit
Author: Great Britain. Social Security Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing subsidies
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Does Council Tax Benefit Work?
Author: Tom ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Council Tax (Great Britain).
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Investigates the performance and the prospects for reform of council tax benefit.
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Author: Stationery Office, ThePublisher:
ISBN: 9780117618558
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages :
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Managing the Impact of Housing Benefit Reform
Author: Great Britain: National Audit OfficePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102980462
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
As part of the measures announced in the emergency budget in June 2010 and the Spending Review of October 2010, the Government announced changes to housing benefit, including reductions to local housing allowance rates for private rented sector claimants and deductions in payments to social sector tenants in under-occupied homes. The Department is actively preparing for the implementation of housing benefit reform, using available data to assess the impact of the reforms on current entitlements. It has estimated that the reforms will result in around two million households receiving lower benefits. Claimants with large numbers of children and those living in areas of high rent such as London will be most affected. The Government intends the reforms to improve incentives to work and lead to positive changes for claimants. Reforms could also lead to hardship or an increased risk of homelessness. How tenants and landlords will respond is highly uncertain at the moment and the Department has commissioned independent research to evaluate the impact of the reforms after implementation and is also working with local authorities to identify the extent to which the reforms will increase the administrative. Uprating local housing allowance by the consumer price index, rather than local rent inflation, could put pressure on the supply of affordable local housing. Downward pressure on rents or increased employment would mitigate the impact but NAO analysis indicates that, on current trends, 48 per cent of local authority areas in England could face shortfalls by 2017
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Guidance Manual
Author: Great Britain. Department of Social SecurityPublisher:
ISBN: 9781847122018
Category : Housing subsidies
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Changes to housing benefit announced in the June 2010 budget
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215555731
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Work and Pensions Committee report that there is still a level of uncertainty around the impact of the proposed changes to Housing Benefit and their cumulative effect on households. The report examines the wide-ranging reforms to the Housing Benefit system proposed by the Government, and in particular for claimants in the private rented sector, in receipt of Local Housing Allowance. The Committee accepts the Government's desire to slow the sharp rise in Housing Benefit costs, particularly in the private rented sector, and thereby to influence the private rental market. However, it expresses some concerns about the availability of private rented accommodation in certain localities, which tenants are likely to be able to secure at the new Housing Benefit levels.
Universal Credit Implementation
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Work and Pensions CommitteePublisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215050748
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Universal Credit pilots (Pathfinders) will begin in the north west of England in April 2013 and full national roll-out is due to start in October 2013. The Government has designed a welfare system which should help ease the transition from benefits to work, but significant concerns remain about the potential impact of the changes on some of the most vulnerable benefit claimants, especially the online claims system and the proposed single monthly payment. The Government needs to reflect on its ambitious implementation timetable. Under Universal Credit, payments to cover the costs of rent will go to the benefit claimant, rather than direct to the landlord. This is a major change and the Committee therefore recommends that, during the initial phases of implementation, claimants who currently have their housing costs paid to their landlord should have the option to continue with this arrangement. The Committee also notes that it has not yet received sufficient evidence to satisfy itself that the Government will achieve its stated aim of ensuring more generous support for the disabled. The Government plans to calculate monthly Universal Credit payments by using information taken from data feeds from HMRC's new Real Time Information (RTI) system though there are concerns about that programme. The Committee, further, recognises that there is likely to be a significant increased demand for advice services during the four-year transition to Universal Credit. The report also comments on closely-related policy areas, including: the conditionality and sanctions regime; passported benefits; localisation of council tax support; localisation of the Social Fund
Older People and the Law
Author: McDonald, AnnPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1861347146
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"This book is a revised and updated edition of Elders and the Law (PEPAR Publications, 1993). It describes the legal framework for working with older people following the modernising agenda in health and social care, and the length has been considerably expanded to enable topics to be dealt with more comprehensively. It covers the range of legal issues affecting the welfare and financial security of older people in the community and residential settings, and emphasises the empowering nature of legal knowledge. It also describes and explains the application of law and policy relating to older people in the context of social work practice." "Older People and the Law is aimed at all professionals working with older people but particularly social workers. Its clarity of style means that older people themselves and carers will find it accessible."--BOOK JACKET.