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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.
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 ...
Local Government (Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 1988 SI 1988/358; Local Government Reorganisation (Capital Money) (Greater London) Order 1988 SI 1988/359; Capital Gains Tax (Gilt-edged Securities) Order 1988 SI 1988/360; Construction Plant and Equipment (Harmonisation of Noise Emission Standards) Regulations 1988 SI 1988/361
Council tax is the system of local taxation used in England, [50] Scotland [51] and Wales [52] to part fund the services provided by local government in each country. It was introduced in 1993 by the Local Government Finance Act 1992, as a successor to the unpopular Community Charge ("poll tax"), which had (briefly) replaced the Rates system ...
The report concluded that London councils are struggling to find local housing for local families as a result of reform. [33] In July 2014, a report was published by the DWP that said only one in twenty claimants affected by the change had downsized their property.
The charity’s damning report said that more than 1 in 5 people in the UK were living in poverty in 2022/23 (Getty Images)
An Act to make provision about housing, including provision about the social rented sector, houses in multiple occupation, landlord and tenant matters, the administration of housing benefit, the conduct of tenants, the allocation of housing accommodation by local housing authorities and homelessness; and for connected purposes. Citation: 1996 c. 52
The Community Charge was extremely unpopular, leading to the poll tax riots of 1990, [1] and contributing to the resignation of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister later that year. [ 2 ] The sections of the Act pertaining to the Community Charge were repealed by the Local Government Finance Act 1992 , which introduced the new Council Tax as a ...