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Housing Benefit is a means-tested social security benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14. [citation needed]
The landlord cannot charge a Section 8 tenant more than a reasonable rent and cannot accept payments outside the contract. [18] Landlords, although required to meet fair housing laws, are not required to participate in the Section 8 program. As a result, some landlords will not accept a Section 8 tenant. This can be attributed to such factors as:
Registered social landlord (RSL) is the technical name for social landlords that in England were formerly registered with the Housing Corporation, or in Wales with the Welsh Government. From 2010 to 2012, associations were termed registered providers under the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 , irrespective of status (private, public, for ...
PIP was introduced by the Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 (which have been repeatedly amended). It began to replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for new claims from 8 April 2013, by means of an initial pilot in selected areas of north-west and north-east England.
In the United Kingdom a bond scheme is an alternative to a landlord taking a deposit from their tenant(s). [1] They are usually run by councils, housing associations or charities and operate with the scheme operator guaranteeing any losses the landlord suffers due to the damage by the tenant(s).
There is no outside landlord. In most cases, all residents of the co-op become members and are owners, and agree to follow certain by-laws. Some co-ops are subsidized housing because they receive government funding to support a rent-geared-to-income program for low-income residents.
When the deposit is under an insurance-based scheme, the landlord or the letting agent will hold the deposit but have to pay a fee to ensure the landlord will not illegally retain the deposit at the end of the tenancy. If at the end of the tenancy the landlord does not release the deposit, the insurance will pay back the tenant.
This legislation should be seen in context with the Housing and Planning Act 1986 which gave councils the option of transferring housing stock to another private landlord (registered social landlord) and the Housing Act 1988 that deregulated the private rental sector for a few years until re-instated in 1991 by the Labour Party [dubious ...