Local Housing Allowance Rates

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If you appeal against the decision your appeal will be referred to an Independent Tribunal administered by The Tribunal Service. Please note that you may also appeal directly to the VTW if we have failed to notify you of our decision within 2 months of you serving a ‘written notice’ on the Council. If following this letter you are still aggrieved you then have 2 months to appeal directly to the Valuation Tribunal for Wales (VTW). The DWP has also reintroduced a new set of overall LHA caps for all of England https://www.leaseforlifementoring.co.uk/ – https://www.leaseforlifementoring.co.uk/ and Wales. Rent Officers Wales do not accept any liability for actions or judgements that LHA claimants or others take arising from the use of the tables. The Valuation Office Agency (VOA) Rent Officers collect rental information from letting agents, landlords, tenants and other sources. In accordance with DWP legislation, Rent Officers are tasked with collecting a sufficient sample from the 12 month period ending 30 September prior to DWP publishing LHA rates on 1 April. The Government has not provided any additional LHA targeted affordability funding for April 2016 to March 2017. For the previous two years Merton had benefited from this for certain bedroom sizes with our three London BRMAs. Local Housing Allowance is only applicable to certain new claims made after 7 April 2008. If you are unsure if this applies to you please contact us.
The VOA has published the new LHA rates that take effect from 1st April 2015. All existing claims and any new and change of address claims made on or after 1st April 2015 will be based on new rates supplied by the VOA. LHA increases from 1 April 2015 to march 2016 only, were based on four factors, the lowest of which determines the amount of the increase. There will be people living in homes they can quite comfortably afford in normal circumstances who will be made redundant or be unable to continue working, or see a reduction in pay. If you have been housed by the Emergency Accommodations team and/or Homeless team. The government must lift LHA rates as an emergency measure, to cover average – https://www.wordreference.com/definition/cover%20average rents across every local market. People eligible for the most severe disability premium must be receiving the middle or highest rate of care component. We’ll work out how much Housing Benefit you’ll get based on your circumstances and the amount of rent you pay.
It is a way of calculating housing benefit for private tenants, making it more simple and fair and giving you personal responsibility for paying your rent. See Calculating LHA for more details about how to work out how many bedrooms you are entitled to claim for. To find out which LHA rate applies, you can use the room calculator on the Rent Service website. To find out which area the property you wish to rent is located, please check directly with the Rent Service by entering the postcode on their website at LHA Direct. Can I find out the maximum Housing Benefit/Local Housing Allowance I am entitled to before I move into new accommodation? To do this the VOA have created Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) which they use to examine rent levels in that area to decide the LHA rates for different accommodation sizes.
There is no minimum amount of Council Tax Reduction payable weekly. LHA rates are based on private market rents being paid in the BRMA which can differ from advertised rents. The rent allowance is usually paid to you every 2 weeks in arrears; however, we can sometimes pay it to your Housing Association or landlord. Benefit can be paid directly to the landlord if, the tenant is eight weeks or more in arrears with their rent. This will be reduced by 14% if you have one spare bedroom, or 25% if you have 2 or more spare bedrooms. The number of bedrooms a person can claim HB for depends on their household. The Government has confirmed that the LHA rates will be frozen for four years from April 2016 until March 2020, at their April 2015 levels.