Changing payment arrangements
For Local Housing Allowance (LHA) Housing Benefit will be paid
direct to your tenant unless they can show satisfactory reasons why
it would be in their best interests to have payment made to you.
e.g. This may be due to medical reasons or a previous history of
bad debt.
For non LHA claims at any stage of their claim your
tenant may choose to have the Housing Benefit paid direct to
themselves instead of you.
If this happens and the Council has already made payments to you
in respect of their current claim the Council will inform you in
writing of your tenant's decision to have payments changed to be
paid to themselves.
If you are unhappy with the new arrangement you must discuss the
matter with your tenant. The Council cannot usually become
involved.