Universal Credit: Housing
(asked on 13th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department differentiates between private sector landlords and housing associations in the manner in which it makes direct payments to landlords on behalf of tenants who receive universal credit.
This question was answered on 16th October 2015
No. DWP does not differentiate between social and private landlords in the manner in which it makes direct payments of rent to landlords on behalf of tenants who receive universal credit.