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http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/welfare-reform/universal-credit/direct-payments-to-tenants

 

 

 

 

Direct payments to tenants Welfare reforms will change the way tenants receive benefits.

 

Under Universal Credit, due to be phased in between October 2013 and October 2017, working-age tenants will receive a single monthly payment directly from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This will include their support for housing costs. This represents a significant departure from the current arrangements, under which many social tenants have their Housing Benefit paid directly to their landlord and receive other benefits weekly or fortnightly.

 

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http://www.housing.org.uk/policy/welfare-reform/universal-credit/direct-payments-to-tenants#sthash.gNhRaGTC.dpuf

 

 

 

 

 

At present the claimant came opt for the HB to be paid direct to the Landlord.

 

With the changes in October 2013 this will no longer be an option as HB will be paid direct to the claimant.

 

It is then the claimants responsibility to pay the landlord the rent due.

 

Rent is a priority payment

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Who does this affect?

 

 

The Government has already announced that pensioners will be excluded from Universal Credit and residents of ‘exempt’ supported housing will have their help with housing costs provided outside of UC. This means that both groups of tenants will be able to continue to have their Housing Benefit paid direct to their landlord.

 

The DWP has also accepted that there are some working-age people who will not be capable of managing a monthly payment, and for whom direct payments to the landlord will remain appropriate. There will be a mechanism within UC to facilitate the payment of benefit direct to the landlord once someone is identified as vulnerable. However, ministers have not yet announced what types of tenants will fall into this ‘vulnerable’ category.

 

The National Housing Federation is calling on the Government to ensure that the category of ‘vulnerable’ claimants, to be awarded exceptions under Universal Credit, is drawn broadly, and includes residents with problematic credit and debt problems as well as those with health problems or a disability that make money management difficult.

 

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It has been brought to my attention - thank you Michael Browne and id6052 :) - that it will only be new claimants immediately affected by this new process. Existing claimants will be eased in over the period until 2017.

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It has also been brought to my attention that Universal Credit might have been postponed.. report dated 12th September 2013

 

 

NAO: Universal Credit roll-out on hold as DWP reviews ‘inflexible’ IT system that cost £303m

 

The Department for Work and Pensions is reviewing how much of a £303m IT system developed to deliver its Universal Credit scheme can be salvaged after serious problems were identified with it.

 

 

The review was revealed in a National Audit Office (NAO) report, published last week, into delivery of the programme, which is aimed at replacing six existing benefits with a single payment.

 

The report said the department is unable to continue its national roll-out of UC, currently being piloted in four job centres, until the service design and IT architecture is agreed.

 

 

 

 

 

The report also said the problems meant that UC would not be introduced for all new out-of-work claims from October, as originally planned.

 

For full story : - http://www.civilserviceworld.com/nao-universal-credit-roll-out-on-hold-as-dwp-reviews-inflexible-it-system-that-cost-303m/

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