Housing Benefit Fails To Cover Rent In Nearly All Of England’s Council Areas

Local Housing Allowance payments are too small to cover average rent almost everywhere in England, analysts for youth homelessness charity Centrepoint have found. In 243 of the 247 local authorities where rent cost data was available, the lowest tier of housing benefit is not enough to pay for a room in a shared house – forcing young people to choose between rent and food. And in more than a third of council areas, the amount of Universal Credit paid to under-25s was at least £100 below the price of rent per month. Read more on the Big Issue website.

https://www.bigissue.com/latest/housing-benefit-fails-to-cover-rent-in-nearly-all-of-englands-council-areas/