Landlords I'm curious..

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Wasn't sure where to post, plus this page gets lost of traffic.

So landlords/lady's.. Now it's all rolled into one benefit, ie tax credits etc I'm not sure how it will work as housing costs will be on someone's award even if before they were just on tax credits. That would mean most working families, even earning fairly good salaries will technically be DSS tenants!

I just don't get it because now technically if you were only tax credits before you weren't a 'housing benefit' tenant and now you are.

If landlords keep thinking like this, they'll never rent their properties! My UC doesn't cancel out until I'm on £45k a year. If I was earning that kind of money, I'd be buying somewhere. So basically no family will be able to rent until they are earning a fair whack, the sort money where most people have their own homes and don't rent.

Thankfully I had a guarantor, but this not a viable option for everyone. I'm gutted that at £30k a year I'm considered a 'dss' tenant. It's embarrassing.

@NitrousOxide thank you, I appreciate that. Once she's 3 I won't be claiming anything anyway, so it's not like I'm going to be claiming forever and it's not like I'm say on my backside all day (well I work in an office so technically I do ;) )

@Santaclarita rtft and you'll see I did a breakdown. When you checked did you include childcare costs? Do you live in a cheap rental area of the country? At £21k you'd definitely get something if you rented and had children, especially if you had childcare costs.

FYI, I still struggle. My Childcare bill is enormous so I have everything to pay for out of my salary, as do you.

@Princessmushroom good to hear :)