50% of Universal Credit claimants now in arrears

The irony is now, that landlords are going to be paying for the governments catastrophic failure with Universal Credit with the help of the latest stealth taxes introduced (Capital Gains Tax cuts and the additional 3% Stamp Duty rate), instead of building the homes that our country so desperately needs.

So now that the majority of your tenants are paid their housing benefit directly, rather than it automatically going to you, please be aware that they are fully responsible for paying the benefit directly to you. Even though research carried out at the introduction found that 92% of tenants would prefer their housing benefit paid directly to their landlord …!