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<p>The Government has introduced the Job Support Scheme as part of a wider package
to protect incomes and has injected over £9 billion into the welfare system, which
will support people with housing costs.</p><p>This includes increasing the Local Housing
Allowance rates for Universal Credit and Housing Benefit claimants so that they are
set at the 30 <sup>th</sup> percentile of market rents. £180 million of Discretionary
Housing Payments are available for those who require additional support, and local
authorities continue to provide their statutory homelessness duties.</p><p>Legislation
has also been introduced requiring landlords to give tenants 6 months’ notice before
they can progress eviction cases to court, except in the most serious circumstances.
Where cases do reach court, new rules require landlords to inform judges if tenants
have been impacted by coronavirus and to re-activate cases from before 3 August.</p>
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