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Housing benefit cap could break up fragile families
Originally posted by 5corpio
Many landlords are refusing to accept new housing benefit levels
Bluebell Harrison cannot sleep at night: she is frightened that she will lose her 19-month-old son to her former partner because she faces eviction from her rented flat. She believes her 17-year-old daughter is suffering depression and her 10-year-old son is having difficulty forming friendships for the same reason.
She is threatened with losing her home in Camden, north London, because her landlord wants to put the rent up above the current level of housing benefit Bluebell receives, and is not prepared to accept the new lower levels that will apply from the start of next year.
The government has introduced new local housing allowance rates, the caps used to determine how much housing benefit should be paid to claimants living in private rented accommodation. These caps apply already to anyone taking out a new tenancy since April, and to people in existing tenancies from the beginning of next year.
LHA rates vary from one local authority to another depending on the rents demanded in
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Bluebell Harrison cannot sleep at night: she is frightened that she will lose her 19-month-old son to her former partner because she faces eviction from her rented flat. She believes her 17-year-old daughter is suffering depression and her 10-year-old son is having difficulty forming friendships for the same reason.
She is threatened with losing her home in Camden, north London, because her landlord wants to put the rent up above the current level of housing benefit Bluebell receives, and is not prepared to accept the new lower levels that will apply from the start of next year.
The government has introduced new local housing allowance rates, the caps used to determine how much housing benefit should be paid to claimants living in private rented accommodation. These caps apply already to anyone taking out a new tenancy since April, and to people in existing tenancies from the beginning of next year.
LHA rates vary from one local authority to another depending on the rents demanded in
Read more on this story: Housing benefit cap could break up Bluebell's fragile family
Direct Gov Link: