£19.5m to unlock private rented sector for most vulnerable
Housing Minister Heather Wheeler MP has confirmed the fund will be shared among 54 projects.
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Universal Credit is a single monthly payment for people in or out of work, which merges together some of the benefits and tax credits currently available. Universal Credit will replace: Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance. Income-related Employment and Support Allowance. Income Support. Implementation has been slow due to the complexities involved.
PMQs hears work ‘isn’t working’ for low income earners
Theresa May accused of seeing poverty as the “price worth paying” for welfare reform
SFHA calls for pause to Universal Credit ‘natural’ migration
Concern that change of circumstance claimants ‘naturally’ migrated will not benefit from safeguards.
DWP concedes to issue with calculating UC for social tenants
Letter to landlords confirms changes are being considered over the 53-week rent year.
No figures for UC free prescription penalty notices
Parliamentary question raises issue of penalty notices for claimants with valid entitlement to free prescriptions.
DWP inflexible over UC assessment flexibility
Minister references regulation to claim claimants face “uncertainty” without fixed start dates for assessment periods.
May winces under PMQ ‘friendly fire’ over UC
PM visibly uncomfortable to hear Tory MP say welfare state was “no longer holding up the most vulnerable – but dragging them down”.
Rents at risk without DWP data share
Welsh providers fear tenants falling behind on payments without advance notice of Universal Credit transfers.
Government refuses to act on DWP ‘inhumanity’
Potential overhaul of DWP sanctions is fobbed off, despite admission that Universal Credit has led to rocketing foodbank use.
Real change to BME income through advice service
The scheme has helped 77 women improve their income by £150,000 in just three months.
UC claimants refusing zero-hour jobs risk sanction
But DWP minister skirts around the issue of such sanctions as policy.
UC rollout to ‘worsen’ NI housing crisis
Recent NIHE report showed almost 20,950 children in families waiting for social housing and at least 13,636 in ‘housing stress’.
CIH president: Housing should be cherished like the NHS
The speech comes as more than 300 housing organisations have signed Make a Stand campaign to tackle domestic abuse in just eight months.
RLA urges a right to direct UC rent payments
Citizen’s Advice report reveals 49% of those it helps with Universal Credit are in arrears over housing payments.
13,000 tenants in Wales at risk of UC underpayment
Community Housing Cymru calls on UK Government to change UC formula to account for year-on-year flexibility.
DWP landlord rent payment portal won’t be live until Summer
With the heat on, the London Assembly Housing Committee hears the portal is still some way off.