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Can you help with Housing Benefits?

Housing Benefit can make life complicated for tenants and their landlords.

Because it's paid to the tenant rather than direct to their landlord to cover rent, it can be eaten up by overdrafts, standing orders, or simply be spent by mistake.

The result can be rent arrears, evictions and in the worst cases, homelessness.

Alternatively, tenants can arrange to have their Housing Benefit paid to the WFCCU.

We're covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, so the money is always 100% safe and we'll pass the payments directly onto the landlord, on time, every time.

So there's no way it can go anywhere other than its intended destination.

To join our Rent Direct Scheme we simply need the agreement of both parties, together with proof of ID and address. To cover our costs, we deduct a small charge from the landlord's payment.


Click here to download Rent Direct Application Form


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