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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.
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 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
Housing; Local government; Planning; Race equality; Urban regeneration (including The Thames Gateway) The Office for Local Government ("Oflog"), established in 2023, is an office within the department responsible for providing "authoritative and accessible data and analysis about the performance of local government, and support[ing] its ...
The Housing Act 1996 (c. 52) is an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Part VII of the act concerns the duties that a local authority has to homeless people and when these duties arise. Section 189 of the act concerns the "priority need" hurdle that a homelessness application must pass for a council to have a duty to provide interim ...
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 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 ...
A Local Housing Allowance (LHA) policy restricting Housing Benefit for private sector tenants to cover a maximum number of rooms had been in place since 2008 and was initially set at the 50th percentile of rents in an area (essentially it covered the median rent), while in 2011 the calculation was changed to the equivalent of the 30th ...