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Benefit cap to begin in Haringey in April
The Department for Work and Pensions today confirmed the four London local authorities where the Benefit Cap roll out will start in April. It will be introduced in Bromley, Croydon, Enfield and Haringey and rolled out across the country throughout the summer.
The cap will be in place across the whole country by summer 2013.
The Benefit Cap will see the amount people can receive in benefits capped at the average earned income after tax and National Insurance for working households of £500 a week for couple and single parent households – the equivalent of £26,000 per year.
It will apply to the combined income from JSA, Income Support, Employment and Support Allowance, Child Benefit, Child Tax Credits and other benefits.
Certain households including those with someone in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or the Support Component of ESA and war widows and widowers will be exempt. To increase the incentive for people on out-of-work benefits to find work, households with a member who is entitled to Working Tax Credit will also be exempt from the benefit cap
The Department for Work and Pension’s has allocated £100 million in Discretionary Housing Payments to help support vulnerable people affected by this change.
For a useful guide to how the cap will work, see this factsheet from Disability Rights
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Permalink Reply by Seema Chandwani on
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Dear George Gideon Osbourne
ignorance is not knowing the difference between debt and deficitFrom Billy Hole, Tottenham Tories, a boyband with less members than Take That!
Love you Little Willy ((Huggles)) xXx
PS: On a serious note, why did you pursue your OBOF bid, it was my favourite... I was routing for you and actually told everyone its the one!
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Going back to how much it reasonably costs to rent in the borough, yesterday the Valuation Office Agency issued it's list of reference rents (i.e. rents they would exect to see being charged with repect to eligibility for housing benefit). We're inner London North as far as I'm aware. One room is literally that (a single room or studio). Two rooms would be a one bed dwelling.
Locality One room (board) One room (shared facilities) One room (self-contained) Two rooms Three rooms Four rooms Five rooms Six Rooms Inner East London £166.25 £109.50 £157.50 £223.27 £285.00 £348.46 £450.00 £485.00 Inner North London £168.51 £114.25 £181.75 £245.00 £322.50 £450.00 £512.46 £621.16 Inner South East London £154.83 £98.08 £144.43 £200.00 £252.31 £299.62 £368.77 £457.31 Inner South West London £169.27 £112.54 £169.25 £248.00 £304.62 £381.93 £466.73 £640.00 Inner West London £178.89 £122.14 £163.48 £236.54 £285.00 £380.00 £483.66 £728.85 Ipswich £107.50 £68.50 £77.31 £98.08 £120.58 £135.58 £150.00 £184.62 Isle of Wight £106.05 £73.50 £83.29 £100.96 £124.04 £150.00 £167.30 £196.15
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Funny, they look like minimum prices. In fact, Yes they are definitely minimums. Even for Haringey.
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Permalink Reply by 1let3pn0rre7k on
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There are two Broad Rental Market Areas in Haringey; parts of Highgate and Stroud Green fall under the the Inner North BRMA and the rest of the borough under the Outer North BRMA, see below for the applicable rates...
http://www.haringey.gov.uk/index/advice_tax_and_benefits/benefits/l...
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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And today as various cost cutting measures are 'debated' in parliament we hear that most families will experience a reduction of monies coming into their household as a result of this coalition's assault on the 'squeezed middle', low income households & those receiving benefits.
Single parent households will be affected the most according to a Radio 4 discussion at lunchtime. IFS analysis of the effects of the Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill here.
For those interested in the wider debate on whether or not 'austerity' is the way fwd to deal with the current 'economic crisis' (as the LibDems & Tories insist it is), Paul Krugman of the NYT points out that even the IMF maybe having doubts that 'austerity' measures' are the correct approach.
As Krugman says; 'The current British government, which killed a promising recovery by turning to austerity, completely refuses to consider the possibility that it made a mistake.' And continues with making mistakes.
The nonsense of 'The virtue of austerity'.
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Absolutely brilliant!
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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The petition (460,000 names) asking that Iain Duncan Smith lives on £53 a week was handed in yesterday. As we all know, IDS is a compassionate fair-minded bloke. So some of us expect him to confound his critics and take up the challenge in the very near future.
The blogger Systems Thinking for Girls urges the Department of Work & Pensions to begin planning for him to experience the Job Centre. She suggests for example, that they should include suddenly stopping his £53 per week for no reason. Click here to read all her suggestions.
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But I think we know Alan, it's to live like this year after year. I was on the dole for 12 weeks when first came to London in 1978 and I'm ashamed to say I took milk from people's door steps early in the morning because that was all I had that day. Welfare is worth far less then it was then so I can't imagine how I would get by now.
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