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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.
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.
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) was introduced by the government of the United Kingdom on 7 April 2008 to provide Housing Benefit entitlement for tenants renting private-sector accommodation in England, Scotland and Wales. The LHA system introduced significant changes to the way Housing Benefit (HB) levels are restricted and how benefit is paid.
In most cases, you have to pay fixed expenses at regular intervals in identical amounts. The most common intervals are months. For example, you may be paying $2,000 every month in rent, mortgage ...
Local Authorities (Discretionary Expenditure Limits) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/41) ... Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Miscellaneous Amendments) ...
Barron Trump is interested in starting his own business. President Donald Trump's youngest son, who turns 19 in March, has his sights set on launching a real estate company, according to business ...