What will happen if landlords decide to no longer take Housing Benefit tenants?
The Government believes the Local Housing Allowance scheme has merits for both landlords and tenants and we hope that landlords will give the reforms a chance to work rather than decide not to let property to people on Housing Benefit. The reforms are intended to help landlords and tenants alike, by creating a more transparent system that will be simpler for people to understand and for local authorities to administer. But we believe there are other benefits too: • Landlords will still be able to approach us for help with rent arrears for tenants on Housing Benefit in a way that they simply cannot do where tenants not on Housing Benefit are in rent arrears • Because payments will be going to tenants in most cases, this largely removes the threat and uncertainty of landlords being asked to repay large amounts of overpaid Housing Benefit • Other changes like the abolition of benefit periods mean that, once arrangements have been made to pay the rent, payments will continue largely uninte
