LHA
Blog: Election 2017: what we're asking for on... welfare
As the build up to next month’s general election continues, CIH policy and practice officer Sam Lister takes a closer look at what we’re asking for on welfare policy – one of our key election priorities.
Published 10 May 2017
Select Committees call for end of use of LHA rates to fund supported housing
The UK government should scrap plans to base rent allowances for supported housing tenants on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates used for claimants in the private rented sector, according to a joint report by two House of Commons committees.
Published 2 May 2017
Gap between LHA and rents putting private rents 'out of reach'
The gap between the help with housing costs that young, single people in the private sector get and their rents is making housing virtually inaccessible, new Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) research has revealed.
Published 31 March 2017
Blog: Assessing the impact of LHA caps for young people living in Scotland
By Ashley Campbell, policy and practice manager at CIH Scotland
Published 27 March 2017
Housing associations and councils to give LHA evidence to UK parliamentary committees
The UK Parliament’s work and pensions and communities and local government committees will hear from housing associations and local authorities today on the UK government’s planned shake-up of supported housing funding.
Published 14 March 2017
Housing associations call for long-term plan for supported housing
Three of Scotland’s largest housing associations have joined together to urge the Scottish Government to find a long-term solution on how to fund supported housing to better meet the challenge of an ageing population and help with better integration of health and social care services across the country.
Published 27 February 2017
Blog: The return of the Bedroom Tax monster?
In a guest blog for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), Shelter Scotland’s Aoife Deery says there are big questions regarding the future affordability of social housing.
Published 25 January 2017
Blog: Bedroom Tax 2 – DWP’s warped logic must be challenged
It might seem trite to term the proposed LHA limits on social housing as ‘Bedroom Tax 2’ but it’s completely legitimate, writes David Bookbinder.
Published 13 January 2017
SFHA concerned about mixed messaging from DWP
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has raised concerns about the inconsistent messaging from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) following their claim the LHA cap - dubbed the Bedroom Tax 2 - will not apply to existing tenants.
Published 10 January 2017
DWP accused of ‘peddling lies and deliberately misleading the public’
Angus Housing Association director, Bruce Forbes, has accused a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokesperson of “peddling lies and deliberately misleading the public” to justify the Westminster government’s “brutal” cuts to welfare.
Published 9 January 2017
Angus director concerned over ‘horrendous’ welfare changes
The director of Angus Housing Association in Dundee has warned that changes to welfare payments could plunge some of the city’s poorest people further into poverty.
Published 6 January 2017
Welfare changes ‘damaging’ to low income families, minister warns
Minister for social security Jeane Freeman has expressed strong opposition to the UK government on its proposal to limit the number of children in families who can qualify for Child Tax Credit and Universal Credit.
Published 5 January 2017
Widened scope of LHA cap ‘to affect over 240,000 more tenancies in Scotland’
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has highlighted that 241,000 more tenants in Scotland will be affected by the announcement that all social housing tenants on Universal Credit will be brought under the new Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap when it is introduced in 2019.
Published 23 November 2016
Local Housing Allowance cap to apply to those on Universal Credit
The UK government’s cap on Local Housing Allowance (LHA) has been delayed for another 12 months for general needs accommodation but will now apply to all tenants who receive Universal Credit when it is introduced in 2019.
Published 22 November 2016
Salvation Army urges government to protect vital homelessness funding
The Salvation Army is calling on the Scottish Government to continue protecting homelessness services amid uncertainty over future Local Housing Allowance funding.
Published 17 November 2016
