Direct Payment Tenants Taken To Court

One of the housing associations involved in the Government’s direct payment demonstration projects - GreenSquare Group - has warned social landlords to get strict with their arrears policy ahead of Universal Credit after revealing it has taken five tenants to court over unpaid rent. GreenSquare has around 400 tenants involved in the demonstration project and a spokesperson said 50% were adapting fine to direct payments and were coping with the change, however the remaining 50% it was having “issues” with.  Read more on 24dash.