Government will bring in a law to force landlords to split £400 energy rebate

It is not a rocket science, if a landlord has not put up any rent since Government proposed this £400 help, as a result of higher energy prices then any rebate is landlords to keep none belongs to any tenants. Its quite simple logic, so please don't start saying we now got to pay for our tenants food and clothing and shoes and petrol bills and provide them free holidays, we might as well get rid of freebie tenants and sell our house. no can do and will not do if this law comes it must be u-turned just as recent example of our new chancellor.
I am so glad that I put my rent up from April 2022, and the help promised came after, so now I will be keeping that money in my pocket. It is 100% mine and not the tenants. I pay the frigging bills.

We didn't get the new prices until the 1st of October - what on earth were we to do, those who were not psychic.

Reply to the comment left by The Forever Tenant at 14/10/2022 - 18:10
Didn't get new rates until 1st October.

Reply to the comment left by Harlequin Garden at 14/10/2022 - 11:00
My landlord increase my rent to take into account of the increase along with the other 9 tenants in the block by £60 per month at the very start of September,and since the £400 was promised to EVERY HOUSEHOLD,surely it should come directly the HOUSEHOLD and not the landlord only ??

Reply to the comment left by Dennis Thompson at 07/11/2022 - 17:36
It goes to the account holder - if it was every household by HMO reasoning there would be numerous payouts as an HMO is made up of a number of 'households' - it's a mess, and the only people suffering are the landlords, landlords will just get out of the market and leave the tenants high and dry with rising rents - badly thought out and not the first time.

Reply to the comment left by Dennis Thompson at 07/11/2022 - 17:36
Our HMO energy bill DD has more than doubled and due to go up again Jan and Apr. Please explain whwere the £66 a month rebate is a plus to the LL and should be repaid. Obviously rather than put the rent up once in a blue moon I need to do it no matter what in anticipation.

Reply to the comment left by Tony Clements at 10/12/2022 - 16:19
Usual government lack of understanding of the real world - they won't be happy until all LLs are out of the market and we can stand back and watch them deal with the chaos they created through their inept behaviour/complete ignorance about what goes on in the world.
Thankfully I put a key meter in for electricity a number of years ago - I give them a budget per month and they have to make up the rest - I'm however open on the gas and that is a massive headache. Tenants think you control the weather - they are cold, well so am I.
Give billions to rogues for 'hotels' (haha) to house the refuges/immigrants? - that will soon come unstuck as all their other mindless schemes have - who helped out the landlords during Covid - oh that's right, no one, who helped out tenants during Covid - oh that's right, their landlord. I think we will be missed when the time comes that we're giving up handing back.
I'm now replacing 10 doors for 'fire doors' (with signs on just incase my tenants don't know how to leave their rooms, couldn't make that one up) the doors were fine 5 years ago, I have to fill in the key holes that have no locks in them (left over from changing to thumblocks) incase they lock someone in their room - with no key or lock, I do wonder what I'm dealing with, and on a door that I've been told to remove and replace with another.
4 double sockets in each bedroom, they've been happy enough with 3 doubles for 20 years and who can afford to put plugs in now? I don't have 4 doubles in my bedroom. Complete and utter madness.
Write to your MP and get the response 'I don't deal with housing', write to the S of S for housing - won't take the email as I'm not his constituent.
Don't get me started on cladding, have more than 3 flats and you pay for the fire stopping works that should have been done by the developer.
Sorry, but this is more than the energy support, it's complete and utter lack of support for one of the most important industries we have - homes.

I calculated an increase in most of my rents last year in September against CPI that was a 10.1% increase over the previous 12 months. Even so I only increased my bills inc HMO rents by a max of 5%. As this calculation was based on historic data (not forecast data), an increase due to anticipated energy increase was not included. This will be considered within CPI stats next September for the next rent increase. If I am forced to flow down the £400 received Energy Bills Support Scheme, this will be taken into consideration. In the long term tenants will loose out. The EBSS will stop, but increased rent carries on! Of course the £400 landlords receive will be treated as income tax and hence will be reduced by 20 or 40%, yet we are expected to flow down the full amount. We would be better off declining the EBSS contribution and to let tenants apply for it direct! Do we have to accept the £400? Has there been any further clarification since the last December post?