No DHP for Bedroom Tax Households after July 2015

It is highly unlikely any discretionary housing payments (DHP) will be given to bedroom tax cases after July this year. The reason is the inevitable consequence of the reduction in the benefit cap and all local councils will have no choice but to divert DHP to benefit cap cases and away from bedroom tax cases and this also means that the majority of DHP awards will go to the private tenant not the social tenant.  The reduced benefit cap means private landlords will seek to evict all families on benefit firstly and soon to be followed by social landlords having to evict social tenant families. Local councils will simply and inevitably shift DHP payments to benefit cap households and away from bedroom tax households as to do so will save the local councils money in temporary homeless costs. Read more on the Speye blog.