The social housing sector is yet to feel the full impact
of the Tory-led coalition's welfare reforms, a provider of assurance and
advisory services has warned. Baker
Tilly's benchmarking survey of 70 housing providers found that the average
level of rent arrears during 2013/14 was 3.29%, slightly down on the 3.90%
anticipated in the same survey last year - but providers are predicting that
rates will rise to 4.14% in 2015/16 once the wider roll-out of universal credit
takes effect. Read more on 24dash.
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