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Local Housing Allowance
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) was introduced on 7 April 2008 to provide Housing Benefit entitlement for tenants renting private sector accommodation in England, Scotland and Wales. The LHA system introduced significant changes to the way Housing Benefit (HB) levels are restricted and how benefit is paid. It does not replace Housing Benefit - it is just a different way of calculating entitlement under the existing Housing Benefit scheme. Its aim is to improve levels of transparency when calculating Housing Benefit. Under LHA, a flat allowance is used to decide the eligible rent of all claimants with similar sized households living in a broad rental market area, rather than tying the level of benefit to a specific town or an individual property. This is supposed to provide an incentive for those on Housing Benefit to find cheaper accommodation but takes no account of factors related to disability needs or proximity to care responsibilities that may preclude this.
== Background ==
In October 2002 the Government announced the introduction of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to replace existing Housing Benefit rent restrictions for private tenants. Local Housing Allowance uses the same regulations as the existing scheme. LHA is means tested and tapered in exactly the same way as Housing Benefit - however, the ''eligible rent'' is fixed for a household of a given size in a given region. This region will include many towns. It is not normally restricted below the advertised LHA rate; if the tenant moves into accommodation that is cheaper than the LHA rate, the tenant gets to keep any difference (up to a maximum of £15). (Payments of this 'top up' amount in LHA calculations ceased in February 2009)
Local Housing Allowance was introduced starting in November 2003 as part of a wider review of Housing Benefit regulations in nine 'Pathfinder' or pilot areas: Blackpool, Brighton & Hove, Conwy, Coventry, Edinburgh, Leeds, Lewisham, North East Lincolnshire and Teignbridge - starting in Blackpool in 2003. From April 2005 a further nine councils started to implement the LHA, starting with Wandsworth, followed by East Riding, St Helens, Argyll and Bute, South Norfolk, Norwich, Pembrokeshire, Guildford and Salford.
An evaluation of the operation of the LHA was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, and carried out by The Centre for Housing Policy,〔This study was collated by Dave Rhodes, Julie Rugg, Steve Wilcox at the University of York - see http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/chp/Projects/Pathfinders.htm〕 working as part of a consortium of universities, together with the National Centre for Social Research.
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