The government plans to recalculate local housing allowance to prevent claimants who face losing their home having to move long distances. The government is looking to match the areas it uses to calculate payments to local authority boundaries. Liberal Democrat MPs had warned ministers that tenants could be forced from their homes under earlier plans - discussed by ministers last year - to increase the size of the broad market rental areas, which determine benefit levels. Pensions minister Steve Webb told MPs that tying broad rental market areas to local authority areas ‘had a number of attractions’ as it would mean tenants who faced a shortfall in their benefit would not have to move as far away from family and friends. He said: ‘In London, it would mean that the BRMAs were smaller, and the affordability figures would, therefore, be within a tighter geographic area.’ Read more on Inside Housing.
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