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A Discretionary Housing Payment is a discretionary and short-term payment made in the United Kingdom that helps people with their housing costs. [1] To get a Discretionary Housing Payment a person must be in receipt of Housing Benefit or Universal Credit. Application is to the Local Authority. Central-government regulations and guidance require ...
The bedroom tax is a United Kingdom welfare policy whereby tenants living in public housing (also called council or social housing) with rooms deemed "spare" experience a reduction in Housing Benefit, resulting in them being obliged to fund this reduction from their incomes, move home, or face rent arrears and potential eviction by their landlord (be that the local authority or a housing ...
Rutherford v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is a case currently before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The case concerns the application of the "bedroom tax" to a family who care for their disabled grandson who suffers from Potocki–Shaffer syndrome.
In June 2014, a Trust for London-funded report by Child Poverty Action Group found there to be sixteen London boroughs that have more households claiming housing benefit than there are affordable properties, with families relying heavily on short term discretionary housing payments from councils to stay in their homes.
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.
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Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help get President-elect Donald Trump back in the White House, according to newly released campaign finance records. The ...
Earlier this month, during a rally in Pittsburgh, Barack Obama excoriated Donald Trump and his disciples for lying that Hurricane Helene relief went to undocumented immigrants.