Thursday, 27 February 2020

As Safe As Houses

As "No DSS" is finally ruled unlawful, three cheers for the three-term Labour Government that never banned such mortgages and insurance policies.

A long time ago, I worked in Housing Benefit, and the discrimination against claimants has never made any sense to me. Paid by the Council, often to the Council, it is an absolutely secure source of income for a landlord.

Just specify in the Tenancy Agreement that the rent would be whatever was awarded as Housing Benefit, and watch the quids roll in. I have genuinely never understood why that was not the model of one or more of the biggest businesses in the country.

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