A limit on housing benefit in line with Local Housing
Allowance (LHA) rates will not now apply to supported housing tenancies taken
out before April 2017. In a written statement to parliament today, Justin Tomlinson,
a DWP minister, said the ‘LHA cap’ would apply to new supported housing
tenancies starting from April 2017, instead of April 2016 as originally
intended. The year-long exception will allow ministers to analyse the results
of a research project into supported housing costs before new tenants are
affected. Although new supported housing tenancies in the 2016/17 financial
year will not now be affected, the actual cut in benefit for all other new
social housing tenancies, and for new supported tenants after April 2017, will
still take place from April 2018 as planned. Read the full statement on the
Parliament website.
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