Issue - meetings

Introduction of the Local Housing Allowance

Meeting: 30/10/2007 - Executive Member For Corporate Services and Advisory Panel (Item 39)

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This report advises Members of the introduction of the Local Housing Allowance from April 2008 and its implications for the calculation and payment of Housing Benefit. This report is for information only and no decision is required.

Decision:

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member be advised:

(i) That the content of this report be noted

(ii) That it be noted that further advice will be provided to Members once the regulations have been published and more detail about the scheme is known.

(iii) To write to the minister to express concerns about the impact of extending the Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) on York.

Decision of the Executive Member

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:To keep the Executive Member informed of changes in legislation that impact on the processing and payment of Housing Benefit.

Minutes:

Members received a report which advised Members of the introduction of the Local Housing Allowance from April 2008 and its implications for the calculation and payment of Housing Benefit. This report was for information only and no decision was required.

Members raised concerns about the extension of the Broad Rental Market Area (BRMA) for York into rural parts of the East Riding of Yorkshire and parts of Selby, which may result in a lower median rent, and the impact this would have on York where rents were higher than these areas. It was agreed that the Executive Member would write to the minister to express concern about extending the BRMA.