Universal Credit (UC)
income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
You must assess capital means in all cases. However, if your client receives financial support under sections 4 or 95 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 from the National Asylum Support Service (NASS), they’re passported through both income and capital tests for controlled work immigration and asylum matters only.
Eligibility limits
Gross income limit
Your client’s gross monthly income should be £2,657 or less. If they have more than 4 child dependants, add £222 to this figure for the fifth child and each further child.
Disposable income limit
Disposable capital limit
This limit is set at £8,000 for all civil legal services except any relating to an immigration matter set out in regulation 8(3), which is capped at £3,000.
Washington Senate bill would give tenants right to counsel and stop no-cause evictions By Brandon Block, The Olympian
Published: January 25, 2021, 10:08am
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Washington could become the first state in the country to provide a right to legal representation for low-income tenants facing eviction in housing court.
The measure is part of a Senate bill introduced last week that pairs temporary tenant protections aimed at staving off mass evictions with permanent changes to ensure tenants have equal access to the housing court system.
“If I’ve learned anything from the past ten months, it’s that state policies to help ensure renters can stay in their homes and landlords can pay their bills during a public health crisis are inadequate,” said Sen. Patty Kuderer, Chair of the Senate Housing and Local Government Committee and one of the bill’s six Democratic sponsors, at a hearing on Wednesday.
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As eviction ban stretches on, so does uncertainty and rent debt By Sydney Brownstone and Daniel Gilbert, Sydney Brownstone and Daniel Gilbert, The Seattle Times
Published: January 11, 2021, 8:34am
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If Washington’s extended ban on evictions expires at the end of March, 46-year-old Antonio Salazar could potentially lose his housing.
Salazar, a native of Mexico and 20-year resident of Redmond, worked as a chef until a few years ago when he suffered an accident that required spinal surgery. His only source of income had been workers’ compensation, which he said the state terminated a year ago, just before the pandemic set in.
New WA program plans to help curb conflict after eviction moratorium
A new pilot program being launched in six counties aims to help avoid conflict between landlords and tenants when the eviction moratorium eventually lifts.
First established in March when the pandemic began, the eviction moratorium prevents landlords from evicting tenants for non-payment of rent. It does not erase the rent that is due when the moratorium eventually lifts.
“It was developed to anticipate what we can do to alleviate some of the wave of evictions that will hit when the moratorium lifts,” said Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Clint Johnson.