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If I ask 8 weeks rent in advance, so that the tenant is in arrears after one day of the tenancy, is the local authority obliged to pay me directly?

April 26, 2017in arrears local rent tenancy tenant weeks

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If I ask 8 weeks rent in advance, so that the tenant is in arrears after one day of the tenancy, is the local authority obliged to pay me directly?

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Direct payments should be made to a landlord where “the person is in arrears of an amount equivalent to 8 weeks or more of the amount he is liable to pay his landlord as rent”.