MPs Blast Banks For Discriminating Against Tenants On Benefits

MPs have slammed banks for “discriminating” against tenants on housing benefit and suggested the government may need to ban them from operating “no DSS” policies. NatWest was criticised in October after it emerged that the bank prohibited many of its buy-to-let landlord borrowers from having tenants on housing benefit. The Commons work and pensions committee has intervened, saying the government must address the “housing blacklist” created by mortgage lenders’ “no DSS” policies. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/nov/20/mps-blast-banks-for-discriminating-against-tenants-on-benefits