Housing and Housing Benefit Law: a Practical Guide

This text addresses both benefits and housing issues and includes worked examples, tables, precedents, flowcharts and example documentation. It introduces and analyses the overlap between housing law and housing benefit.

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This text addresses both benefits and housing issues and includes worked examples, tables, precedents, flowcharts and example documentation. It introduces the overlap between housing law and housing benefit, and considers: application for housing; housing benefit; repossession and defending possession; rent arrears; enforcement procedures; and common problems and solutions. Major changes to Housing Benefit legislation, the new Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 and the introduction of the Human Rights Act should make this handbook a useful reference tool for lay advisors, case workers in advice agencies, charities, housing departments, social security commissions and tribunals.