Under the new LHA arrangements, Housing Benefit may be made to a person’s landlord where the Council considers that the tenant “is likely to have difficulty in relation to managing his financial affairs”. The intention is to prevent people who are likely to experience difficulties from falling into rent arrears.
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To read about this in more detail, please click on the link below to access the Safeguards Policy Guidelines:
Safeguards Policy, Swindon (72 Kb, PDF document)