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15/05/2013
Funding Ruling Closes Emergency Night Shelter
Manchester and Salford’s only emergency night shelter for the homeless has been forced to close after Salford City Council rules that it could no longer take housing benefit from residents.
28 men and woman have been left without accommodation and five staff laid off from Narrowgate in Pendleton. Accepting housing benefit was the centres main source of funding.
Salford council have insisted they had no choice but to make the housing benefit decision, following a legal case in Wales.
It is understood that a judge ruled that the emergency accommodation could be classed a ‘home’ and therefore housing benefit could not be payable to the night shelter.
(MH/CD)
28 men and woman have been left without accommodation and five staff laid off from Narrowgate in Pendleton. Accepting housing benefit was the centres main source of funding.
Salford council have insisted they had no choice but to make the housing benefit decision, following a legal case in Wales.
It is understood that a judge ruled that the emergency accommodation could be classed a ‘home’ and therefore housing benefit could not be payable to the night shelter.
(MH/CD)
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