Universal Credit: crunch decisions to be made on housing payments

Government ministers will meet this week as they look to define the 'vulnerability criteria' that will determine whether tenants continue to have their housing benefit paid directly to their social landlord from 2013.

From that date, housing benefit - among other means-tested benefits - will be rolled into a Universal Credit which will be administered centrally, and paid directly to tenants.

The Government has said, however, certain groups will continue to see their benefit paid direct to the landlord such as pensioners and “vulnerable people” which it has previously estimated the latter to stand at around 10% of social housing tenants.

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