Tag: Housing benefit
The Pointless Housing Benefit Helpline
I’ve just come off the phone to our local housing benefit “help” line, scraped myself off the ceiling and stopped terrifying...
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Congratulations to Roy for his winning story!
Mary Latham selected the Good Tenant Story because “People don’t have to...
Landlord Forced Tenants to Share Cramped Rooms
Landlord Pavlos Chatzinopoulos was fined £2,515 for making tenants share with cramped rooms with tenants they did not know.
Swindon...
What if the PRS didn’t exist?
By Guest Columnist Ben Reeve-Lewis
I work for a council in London. I’m the landlord’s nemesis, the bogey man, a Tenancy Relations...
Landlord Tax Cheats Targeted by HMRC Task Force
Buy to let landlords evading tax face a crack down from a new HM Revenue and Customs task force.
Tax inspectors will target buy to...
We Need More Trust Not More Legislation and Regulation
There is a lot of talk these days about tenants needing security of tenure and organisations like Shelter would like Government to...
Pondering Article Four – Stick It On The Students!
I was going to write a piece about what to do when an HMO tenant goes AWOL (Absent Without Leave) and disappears off the face the earth. ...
