The financial impacts of the pandemic, combined with a change to Immigration Rules, could lead to many people with NRPF being deported, says Citizens Advice.
Organisations representing tenants, landlords and letting agents urge the government to provide financial help to private renters in ‘COVID rent arrears’ to avoid a surge in homelessness.
Frank Field says the ongoing administrative failures of Universal Credit are biting into incomes already cut, frozen, sanctioned and capped to below basic living costs.
Nearly half of people claiming Universal Credit in Scotland have chosen for their payments to be paid in a different way when offered the choice by the Scottish Government.
Almost two-thirds of private landlords with tenants receiving Universal Credit have experienced them going into rent arrears according to new research.