The work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has
belatedly acted to end a bureaucratic bungle which caused thousands of
sanctioned jobseekers to wrongly incur rent arrears and face eviction. Guidance slipped out by the DWP last week
clarifies that local authorities should not automatically stop a claimant’s
housing benefit payment in the event of them having their unemployment benefit
stopped by job centre officials. The
problems were caused by DWP computer systems wrongly informing local authority
housing benefit departments that a claimant’s job seeker benefit had been
cancelled when it had in fact been temporarily suspended. Read more on the
Guardian website.
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