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Direct Payment of Housing Benefit: What Do Claimants Think?Peter Kemp |
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The government is reforming the way that Housing Benefit is paid in the private rented sector. Currently, this benefit is usually paid directly to private landlords rather than claimants.
But what do claimants think of these two payment methods?
This report explores the issue from a claimant perspective, drawing on interviews with private and social housing tenants.
It suggests that people are happiest with their current payment method, but that the proposed changes may not be as problematic as some commentators have suggested.
ISBN: 978-1-905018-468 / 978-1-905018-47-5 Order no: 244 Published: May 2007
Contents
Summary
1. Introduction
2. Managing money and paying bills
3. Paying the rent
4. Housing Benefit payment preferences
5. Making the transition to claimant payment
6. Conclusions