Direct Payments demo figures

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/direct-payment-demo-figures.pdf  published Dec 2012. Sorry if this has been up before

‘Tenants taking part in the Government’s ‘direct payment’ pilots are running up larger rent arrears than other families whose housing benefit is still paid straight to their landlord, according to one of the housing associations involved.

Figures from Bron Afon Community Housing show that tenants given responsibility for settling their rent using benefit paid to them direct by the Department for Work and Pensions owe an average of £100 more than other households at the association ...’

http://www.24dash.com/news/universal_credit/2013-02-06-Universal-Credit-Carefully-selected-tenants-struggling-to-cope-with-direct-payments