Page Contents
- Introduction - Who is Help2Rent
- Universal Credit payments
- Help with housing costs under Universal Credit
- Private rented sector tenants
- Social rented sector tenants
- Getting ready for Universal Credit
- Landlords can help tenants to get ready for Universal Credit by encouraging them to:
- Managing your money
- Alternative Payment Arrangements
- Ensuring that rent is paid
- First Universal Credit payment
- Paying rent while waiting for their first payment of Universal Credit
- DWP checks on rent and tenancies under Universal Credit
- Changes that might affect a Universal Credit payment
- Notifying landlords that tenants are claiming Universal Credit
- Calculating monthly rent if a claimant’s rent is paid weekly
- Other rent payment frequencies
- Rent-free weeks
- Universal Credit and service charges
Ensuring that rent is paid
Ensuring that rent is paid
Universal Credit payments are paid monthly in arrears in the same way a wage is. Claimants will be expected, where possible, to arrange their own rent payments.
If landlords have previously received direct payment of Housing Benefit from the local authority, they will need to speak to their tenants to agree arrangements for collecting rent from them. Setting up a direct debit or standing order may help your tenant manage their rent payments.
In some cases Alternative Payment Arrangements can be put in place to support claimants.
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