SFHA has submitted evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee Inquiry on benefit take-up.
Ahead of the dissolution of Parliament, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee has published two reports highly critical of welfare policy and has called for the reversal of the benefit freeze by increasing levels by CPI + 2% for the next four years.
The Supreme Court has ruled where there was a ‘transparent medical need for an additional bedroom’, which was not catered for in regulation B13 (5) and (6), there was unjustified discrimination on the ground of disability, contrary to article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
SFHA has joined the Trussell Trust’s #FiveWeeksTooLong campaign.
SFHA has submitted evidence to the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee’s Inquiry into Welfare in Scotland – highlighting concerns over the shortcomings in the administration of Universal Credit.
SFHA seeks member support for Challenge Poverty Week
SFHA has joined the Trussell Trust’s #FiveWeeksTooLong campaign.
Damon Gibbons of the Centre for Responsible Credit gave a briefing to members on a pilot run with a London based housing association to offer tenants on low incomes the opportunity to over and underpay their rent on a planned basis.
Blog by Jeremy Hewer, SFHA Policy Lead.
How is Universal Credit affecting your organisation and tenants? Tell us in this month’s Universal Credit survey.
Majority of carers will receive their next payment of Carer’s Allowance Supplement on Friday 13 December.
Latest private rent statistics released by Scottish Government.
The latest returns for SFHA's Universal Credit Impact Survey for September 2019.
Applications for crisis grants from Scottish Welfare Fund increased by 12% in the quarter until June compared with the corresponding period last year.
Advisers achieve 100% satisfaction and £900k for Melville tenants.
In this first of a series of blogs for Chalenge Poverty Week 2019, Sally Thomas, SFHA Chief Executive, considers the roles that housing associations can play in addressing the issues of poverty.
