Lord Freud: Owners of housing benefits are ripping off the system
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Private landowners will be pocket almost ￡ 8. taxpayer this year's benefit accommodation - more than a third of the total invoice 5bn. 5bn ￡ 21, according to figures from the Ministry of labour & pensions (DWP).
In the last decade, the cost of the provision of accommodation providers in the private rented sector reached by 36pc above the rate of inflation at ￡ 5, 720.Autres social housing providers have raised their 19pc loads just on inflation at ￡ 3,991.
Lord Freud said: "This confirms what we've long suspected, some unscrupulous owners are billing providers advantage over the chance to make a quick buck at the expense of the taxpayer".
The advantage of Housing Act has exploded in the last decade to 50pc above the rate of inflation to ￡ 21 5bn providers and rents have increased and is now larger than the Bill for the combined adult working royale.Chaque Navy and army contributes ￡ 689 per year.
The coalition plans to save ￡ 1. 77bn annually by cutting the weekly allowance of 2 000 ￡ ￡ 400, among other changes mesures.Des may be introduced in the review of spending this week.
A study of the DWP, low-income working households in the private rented sector, has revealed that, on average, private owners charge higher benefits housing applicants that adults who work in housing equivalent rent, but the worst conditions.
The research also provided convincing evidence that the benefit is distorting the incentives to work, stressing the need for reform. ""[Low-income work] households with children under the age of 16 years seem to be worse for the size of the property they occupy and the rates that they would be entitled to if they were eligible for the benefits of housing," said the study.
According to the DWP, "some private specifically target the advantage of housing sub-market owners because they know that they can order more rents these tenants... causing a ripple effect on rentals in the area."
Do worse, lots of private owners who bought the Council housing offshore local authorities and then retire back as social housing.
