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Sanctions and deductions for rent arrears

Dan
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Afternoon all

My reading of para 4 of schedule 6 of the UC (Claims and Payments) Regs (2013/380) is that a deduction cannot be taken from a claimant’s UC for any of the reasons set out in para. 5(2) (including for rent arrears) if such a deduction is made during the same assessment period as any deductions under on of the “relevant provisions” set out in para 4(2) of sch. 6 (including “higher-level” and “other” sanctions) and would result in a total deduction of more than 40% of the standard allowance.

Put simply: deductions for rent arrears are very likely to be stopped once a sanction is imposed.

Does my reading of this provision sound uncharacteristically accurate?
Does anyone have any practical experience of rent arrears deductions during a sanction?

SarahJBatty
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Hi Dan.  In practice rent arrears deductions are continuing during sanction.
With the effect that any amount being paid to landlord as MP for housing costs element is reduced by the amount of the rent arrears deduction, only to be paid to the very same at a later date.
Interested in your view that this should not be the case.