Welfare reform and UC

Each year since proposals to radically overhaul the benefits system were introduced by the 2010-2015 coalition government, the NFA has collaborated with partners ARCH to track the impact of welfare reform on council tenants and their landlords.

The housing element of the single Universal Credit that replaced a number of benefits, including housing benefit – particularly how it is calculated and how it is paid – has been of crucial importance to social housing landlords.

This highly respected and much-cited suite of surveys stretches back to 2013 when the first Universal Credit pilot programmes were launched.