Universal Credit is here !
I went to a Landlords Forum in Bridgend, Wales last week, what a nightmare! It is finally arriving, the dreaded Universal Credit!
This is where our tenants will receive the housing element of around £500 plus every month. Will they pay us?
Here is my idea to canvass. If you have Housing Benefit tenants they all fill in forms stating “if you do not tell us about any changes in circumstance we will prosecute you”. Now this means HB dept will prosecute for any change right. So…if the HB element of Universal Credit is not paid forward to the Landlord, then why can’t that be a change of circumstance? (The circumstance being that the UC paid forward by Gov’t is paid forward for that housing element).
I am lobbying my local MPs on this. I won’t accept any more rent voids, for if landlords like me go down, then any prospective tenant loses a chance with a good landlord. The very threat of prosecution under Universal Credit housing benefit element not being paid might just stop the tenant thinking they can get away with it.
Any thoughts fellow landlords??
Kev
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12:50 PM, 19th June 2015, About 11 years ago
It may not be that bad I have had tenants who have received direct payment for years and they have been brilliant.
Then again I don’t normally let to drunks and drug users so maybe that’s why I am lucky.
In Northern Ireland the local Assembly said it would be madness to do away with direct payment to the landlord and were going to carry on paying landlords direct. But due to the fact the can not make a decision on the local budget, this may now go back to the mainland who will then implement their policy here.
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2:39 PM, 19th June 2015, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by “Jack Ass” at “19/06/2015 – 12:36“:
What’s the programme?
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2:49 PM, 19th June 2015, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by “Luke P” at “19/06/2015 – 14:39“:
Hi Luke
I think it is the one that starting on the 24th June at 9 pm Channel 5 Nightmare Tenants Slum landlords
Member Since September 2014 - Comments: 277
2:52 PM, 19th June 2015, About 11 years ago
It’s called ‘Nightmare Tenants Slum Landlords” on channel 5 at 9 pm Wednesday 24th June, enjoy!
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4:58 PM, 19th June 2015, About 11 years ago
What has always got to me with HB tenants is that they all seem to run cars .
Surely there is something very wrong when they pull up in a car to view a property .
Cars cost money but they have one .
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6:02 PM, 19th June 2015, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by “Jan Martin” at “19/06/2015 – 16:58“:
Oh for the ‘good life’!
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12:51 AM, 20th June 2015, About 11 years ago
And the big telly, PS4, Galaxy S6 Edge(128 Gig)
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1:53 PM, 21st June 2015, About 11 years ago
Reply to the comment left by “Gary Nock” at “20/06/2015 – 00:51“:
Yes Gary,and the holidays and the fags and the drink . Where do I go wrong ???
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7:00 PM, 21st June 2015, About 11 years ago
Don’t forget the tattoos and a few more things besides! I’ll give you a cryptic clue ‘compost’.???
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7:31 PM, 21st June 2015, About 11 years ago
there really is only one answer to this, that is give HB a wide berth, forever.