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Benefit cap & rent free weeks
Hi all,
Interesting point flagged up our caseworkers in the past week.
Bristol has a large council housing stock and this year began to charge rent over 52 rather than 48 weeks.
Coupled with the final 1% rent reduction this year, this has brought a number of families out of the benefit cap.
Just thought I would flag up in case anyone is working in an area where landlords do continue to include rent free weeks and might want to push for changes.
Thanks for flagging this up!
That might explain why we have stopped applying rent free weeks…