Pay MORE to Stay – £230 pw rent increase | SPeye Joe (Welfarewrites)

Last Updated: October 20, 2015By

There is an opposition day debate on Tax Credit plans today and no doubt figures will be mentioned re losses that working families will receive.  The Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) are just two such estimates of this in the public domain.

YET none of these estimates takes into account the Conservatives Pay (MORE) to Stay policy that sees families with an income of over £30k per year and living in social housing seeing their rent increase from social rent to gross market rent.

In short the Tax Credit analyses out there do NOT factor in this change that will see a family in Guildford with one parent working full time on £7.20 per hour have to pay £12,000 per year more in rent.

Below are the figures that have taken me ten minutes to work out.

  • Wage Income (net)  £13,012 (£14,601 gross)
  • Tax Credit Income   £13,067
  • Housing Benefit        £5,021
  • Child Benefit             £3,213
  • Total Household (net) Income £34,317 (gross £35,906)

Because the Total Household Income exceed £30,000 limit the current social rent of £145 per week for a 3 bed social housing property increase to £375 per week.

That means a £230 per week increase in rent and in expenditure which is an increase of £11,960 per year in rent under the Pay (MORE) to Stay policy.

Source: Pay MORE to Stay – £230 pw rent increase | SPeye Joe (Welfarewrites)

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5 Comments

  1. mrmarcpc October 20, 2015 at 3:52 pm - Reply

    Once again it’ll be the poor and less fortunate that will receive the harsher cuts!

    • AndyH October 20, 2015 at 4:18 pm - Reply

      But hey we’re all in this together *ducks to avoid flying pig*

  2. A-Brightfuture October 20, 2015 at 6:03 pm - Reply

    All the Tories are doing, is nudging tenants to buy their property,
    Social housing is being attacked at every level.

  3. Dez October 20, 2015 at 7:06 pm - Reply

    Private rented property, purchased under buy to let arrangements, will also be clobbered big time when Government remove their tax deduction for interest payments. To cover the tax benefit they will lose on not getting interest relief they will have to either sell up or increase their rent significantly. Those that purchased outright their letting property will not be touched.

  4. Chris Kitcher October 21, 2015 at 10:42 am - Reply

    And then come April 2016 there will be the added loss of Income Tax Credits to contend with.

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