Settled Housing Solutions Consultancy Service can review the current housing benefit support for local landlords, letting agents and re-housed tenants.

 

Our recommendations will aim to improve Local Housing Allowance performance and joint working between your Housing Benefit Service, the Housing Options Team, the local private rented sector providers and significantly the re-housed tenants.
 

“Tenancy Sustainment would be an important part of a Local Lettings Agency’s (LLA) work as would a focus on improving the quality of the local housing benefit market in the private rented sector“

Department of Communities and Local Government

 
 

Our range of Local Housing Allowance (LHA) services include:

  • Review and upgrade the LHA/HB Service Level Agreement and LHA Safeguard Policy between the Housing Service, the Housing Benefit Service and local PRS Providers
  • Review and streamline the LHA tenant eligibility and suitability criteria and all tenants referred to the private rented sector
  • Review the floating support processes currently utilized for all tenants
  • Facilitate LHA Awareness Training Sessions for front line housing options staff, customer’s services and local PRS landlords and letting agents.
  • Integrate landlord repossession prevention plans
  • Introduce LHA rent arrears indemnity plans
  • Review all material currently used to promote LHA to local landlords and private tenants.
  • Integrate the Landlord Energy Saving Allowance and Energy Efficiency Targets

We are happy to discuss with you how our full range of recommendations can help you successfully operate LHA within your housing options and homelessness service.

 

 

 

 
  'Housing Benefit and the Emergency Budget of June 2010' a report by the leading housing research charity, the Building and Social Housing Foundation, debunking many of the myths that suggest the Housing Benefit system is out of control.  

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House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee report on Local Housing Allowance 2009-10

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  Crisis Housing Benefit survey 2010  

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