Very informative. It's a nightmare trying to find a landlord that accepts DSS. I have been stuck in a hostel with 12 roommates within one room. Although I am eligible for £250.00 wk. no landlord wants to accept DSS. The only way around this problem is to trick the landlord into thinking you are working by giving them false bank statement and payslips. They will never know where their rent is coming from. But hey. I do not endorse such things.

Very well communicated; I was feeling like I was prejudice but now I understand the matter clearly.

The council should just pay the landlord only, and that would stop a lot of people not paying the rent

Excellent video, 20 years ago I had to evict as council said to tnt , stay put. Cost me a lot to get them out. Fast forward to today, I have had so really nice people on benefit apps to my flat. However, beacause I got burned years ago , I would never have DSS again for these reasons.

The housing benefit used to pay the whole rent years ago, the gov introduced LHA which only pays 70% of the rent leaving claimants with a shortfall, also in order to get an AST roomshare I had to lie and give false work refs from a friend , this is the only way a DSS claimant can get a room in 2019, I'm not working because I have care responsibility for my gran who has dementia but again the gov not helping , I've been on council housing list for 5 years never offered even a bid on a flat, it's disgusting what this gov has done

If you are single unemployed on your own the money you get. It does not cover all the rent and the council tax on top of that, that is why people do not pay, they haven't got it and would rather eat. Automation, low pay and not enough jobs to go around. The landlords can't help it because they won't get an income, but people need somewhere to live. This country will go to the dogs eventully and no one will profit anything from housing, diease and unsantitary issues will be rife, if not already. It will come to pass if nobody cares and the govenment don't pull thier socks up. It will come to pass because I see the future and every thing I've said before has now come to pass. You've been foretold.

Housing benifet is paid direct to the tenant now not to the landlord . Does not help

Benefits should go to landlord directly.

Excellent post. You’ve just summarised everything I’ve said to prospective applicants for years. Apologies, just found this video from sone time ago. Great job.

I have to say this was a very good video very informative given the recent no DSS ruling we have had.

Exactly well presented video. The system makes it difficult to accept benefit tenants

Back in the ancient mists of time, landlords weren't even allowed housing benefit at all - tenants had to pay rent out of their dole - then, once housing benefit was brought in for private landlords, any top-up that the tenant had to meet was not to exceed more than a third of a tenant's income support (as it was then called) - today, 100% of the rent is paid by housing benefit - it's now illegal for a landlord to even expect, let alone force, any tenant to make up the shortfall between the going rate (as determined by housing benefit) and the asking price (as determined by the landlord. Government brought in such rules to stop unscrupulous landlords charging for services that they either didn't provide or tried to double dip - include gas and electricity in the rent, but still force tenants to put ten bob bits in meters - and make the ten bob bit run out faster than it should - or charge as if they were bed and breakfast, but not actually provide breakfast - or provide inadequate meals - or forced tenants to live in flats with dodgy plumbing or electricity or dangerous boilers - or tried to accommodate whole families of about a dozen people into a room only big enough to accommodate one person - or put the hot water on for about an hour in the morning, then expect it to last all day, instead of on constant, and doing the same with heating - even in winter - until housing benefit clamped down and capped everything! A lot of this can be blamed on some of the private landlords of the past!

I rented to a tenant who was having the rent paid into his own bank account, he stopped paying the rent so I contacted the council, asked for the rent to be paid direct to me and was told the tenant has to ask for that, even though I explained the tenant didn't pass me the rent the previous month and was then unlikely to with the next months rent. Another tenant who stopped paying the rent told me the council told him to stay put and make me take him to court while still putting rent money into his bank account. I contacted the council and they lied to me saying they wouldn't tell someone to stay until court action. I see the current way of not being seen as discriminating against people on housing benefit is to state a minimum income.

They’ve should debate in parliament

Government has screwed over both the tenants and the landlords. I feel sorry for both parties.

Thanks. I'm a landlord myself and I've had a lot of problems with DSS tenants. The odds of them getting into arrears is far higher than other types of tenant and because they have no net worth to begin with there's no recourse afterwards.

Thank you

I love your videos you explained really well thanks 😊

Well said sir👍

This is informative, thank you. Yes, it's the system's fault. But it's also the landlords'. Why are you charging such high rents? - not you personally, but the small northern town where I live should not be this expensive to live in. Also, I understand a first-time landlord who is only in the market because they wanted to move and couldn't sell etc. may be cautious, but someone who owns 5+ houses (including 2 for themselves in expensive areas and in 2 different countries) can afford to take a risk!

Great video !!!

Goverment solutions are commonly worse.

The problem is a lot live beyond there means! And fall behind with there rent! This stitching up the landlord! Who is trying to better themselves by having a property to rent! The government ain’t and will never have a clue! When it comes to anything! Taxis potholes street cleaning rubbish collection etc etc useless!! The system should have tennant insurance which will pay any rent owed to the landlord! And when a tennant don’t pay on time it’s then the landlord struggles to pay there mortgages on that property! The circle must keep moving! The gov need to stop greedy bank bonus’s and put those £50.000/£200,000 individual bonus into the system make them payback for there incompetence! Sort it you slags!

From a business perspective it makes sense not to accept those on welfare.