In the LHA ghetto
LHA dolce vita? Tabloid reports that benefit recipients are living the high life focus on exceptional cases. The April 2008 roll-out of the local housing allowance (LHA) wasn’t expected to…
Tag: local housing allowance
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Housing benefit reforms creating ghettos
Reforms to housing benefits would push claimants into ghettos as tenants are forced to move to areas where housing is cheap but jobs scarce, Shelter warned. The local housing allowance…
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Government ignores Lord’s ruling on housing benefit
The government has changed the definition of the rental areas used to set housing benefit levels and sidestepped a House of Lord’s decision that would have forced it to redraw…
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Beckett to cut planned council rent increase
Housing minister Margaret Beckett announced new support to help councils cut their planned rent increases. Guideline rent increases for 2009/10 were set out in September when inflation was at 6.2…