Why cant the 'Authorities' help........
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Elite Property Services
Elite Property Services
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10 years ago
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I have had an incident where a housing benefit tenant has gone 3 months into arrears with her rent. I went to the offices of the 'Housing Benefit' for Anglesey County Council and asked if I could now have the benefit paid directly into my account as per legislation. I was told by the 'unhelpful' supervisor, that she couldn't talk about the case because she was acting for the claimant - despite asking her for her assistance - she continued saying the same thing. Surely, this system needs changing it is so unfair that Landlords have to go 2 months into arrears with their tenants to then be told by the benefits department that they cant speak because of 'data protection......', where does common sense come into this. No doubt it will end up with Landlords not renting their properties to tenants claiming Housing Benefit, which will put pressure on local authorities needing to build more social houses, when they haven't got the funds available. So surely authorities should work with their Landlords rather than make life difficult ........ is this a wide spread situation ?

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