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The term “Exempt Accommodation” came into being in 1995 as a means of identifying types of accommodation that were exempt from what was known at the time as “Local Reference Rents”, which capped the amounts of rent that private landlords could charge.įor an Exempt Accommodation scenario to exist ALL of the following 4 criteria must be fulfilled: There are 4 categories of “Specified Accommodation” as follows: Category 1: Exempt Accommodation. This widened definition is known as “Specified Accommodation”. The DWP then proceeded, in consultation with parts of the sector, to devise a widened definition that would capture both Exempt Accommodation and also those schemes that it claimed “don’t meet the precise definition of Exempt Accommodation”. We believe very strongly that, in the vast majority of cases, agency-managed schemes may well be Exempt Accommodation, and certainly can be established as Exempt Accommodation with some minor adjustments to the documentary arrangements in place.
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Such schemes, it is argued, might include agency-managed services and services providing “insufficient care, support and supervision”. Lord Freud, the UK Government Welfare Reform Minister, also subsequently said (September 2012) that there are some supported and sheltered housing services that “don’t meet the precise definition of Exempt Accommodation”. This is very important for providers and local authorities from a financial point of view and to tenants/licensees from a Welfare Reform protection perspective.Īs you may know the UK Government had said in 2012 that tenants in Exempt Accommodation would have the housing component of their Universal Credit administered outside of Universal Credit according to the Exempt Accommodation rules and would be protected from elements of the Welfare Reform Act (described below). The purpose of this briefing is to define what these definitions really mean and to make the very important point that most supported and sheltered housing, hostels and refuges currently being defined as “Specified Accommodation” but not “Exempt Accommodation” are actually Exempt Accommodation. In recent months there has been much discussion about Exempt Accommodation and Specified Accommodation and a great deal of confusion about the difference between “Exempt” and “Specified” Accommodation. To examine the future for Enhanced Housing Benefit and Additional/Intensive Housing Management.To give comprehensive examples of Additional/Intensive Housing Management tasks and functions.To explain the Welfare Reform Act implications of Exempt and Specified Accommodation.
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To explain what Exempt and Specified Accommodation is and to make clear my view that most “Specified Accommodation” is actually “Exempt Accommodation”.This was written in 2015 & remains relevant today.
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