Hello
In this authority - if a person is placed by the homeless team in B&B accomodation then the rent is not referred to the RO. The entitlement is based on the actual rent charged.
I believe this is an agreement that was made between Housing and Benefits - but basically it was looking at the council finances as a whole and where the council would lose the most money.
These were than treated as threshold cases - where subsidy can be claimed by the LA up to 95% - with (previously)121/2% for the amount above the threshold.
This has been in place for at least three years now, and works well and is perfectly legit, unfortunately the manager who realised tha wecould assess homeless B&B claims in this way is no longer here so am unable to give any more detail - but did refer to ward and zeb for info on subsidy for homeless B&B cases.
Hope this makes sense!!
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