A council is to give housing priority to people who have been in employment for more than two years. Westminster Council has said it wants to reward those actively seeking work while at the same time discouraging a ‘benefits culture’. Currently residents are given priority according to need including factors such as homelessness, medical needs and young children. Now the council has decided to give priority to households where the main applicant has been working under a written contract for at least two years. People on temporary contracts will have to prove they have been employed continuously for the same time with no more than one month’s gap between contracts. People who have been seeking work for the same period of time will be eligible for extra points if they have been engaged with the council’s homelessness employment learning project. Read more on Inside Housing.
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