HAP – Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) to guarantee payment to landlords

 

May 2023

Measures have been or will be put in place to ease the impact of the end of the winter emergency period, including to amend the HousingHAP Update Assistance Payment (HAP) to guarantee payment to landlords where the tenant defaults on payment of differential rent, effective from 1 May 2023.

From 1 May 2023 when a HAP tenant defaults on their differential rent payment to the local authority they will be offered the option of a payment plan to assist them in maintaining their tenancy and allow the HAP payment to the landlord to continue.

If the tenant defaults on payment of differential rent under the Landlord Payment Guarantee the HAP payment to the landlord will be guaranteed for a 12 month period or earlier if the tenancy ends subject to confirmation that the tenant is in the property.

The HAP payment will be made in-line with HAP procedures within the 12 month period or earlier if the tenancy ends.

 

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