Re: Is a landlord allowed to do this?

NOSPAMnet@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT), Webmanager_CritEst
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On Aug 18, 6:56 pm, "h.tees" <h.t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Mike Harrison" <mjh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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A landlord has a flat for rent.

The rent for a new tenant who is working full time would be £400 pcm.
(This could be considered the market rate rent for the flat.)

However, the rent for a new tenant on Housing Benefit is £450 pcm.
This is because the rate of Local Housing Allowance applicable to that
property is £450 pcm. The landlord refuses to accept Housing Benefit
tenants on a lower rent.

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but is the landlord allowed to
do that? Are they not defrauding the benefits system by artificially
raising the rent level to take advantage of the LHA?

Thanks.

(The figures given here are just examples.)

The landlord is not defrauding anyone - he is stating the cost of rent. If
the
Benefits Agency is silly enough to pay a maximum amount for some scrounger
who can't be bothered working then that is what they will pay.
The figures are not kept a secret and the scounger can choose to have the
honest tax payers money paid directly to him/herself or to the landlord.
Scroungers often pose a greater risk and have a complete lack of respect
for other peoples property, so maybe he needs to cover the cost of predicted
damage. This would definitely be the case of the many economic migrants and
millions fleeing from a war of some sort in search of our free handouts.
The rules are about to change on monies to landlords (if they have not
already).
Change to what?

That the HB is paid direct to the HB claimant rather than a choice of either claimant or landlord. The landlord will only be paid directly if there are large rent arrears or the claimant has a history of financial mismanagement and wishes the rent to be paid direct to the landlord.

These changes happened in April.

--
Robbie
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