Monthly Archives: March 2021

Online help with Revenues and Benefits queries

If you visit any of the web pages for the different functions of Revenues and Benefits; Business Rates, Council Tax or Housing Benefit, you’ll now see an option to use a ‘chat bot.’ This is an automated tool which will help you:

  • navigate around our pages;
  • direct you to further links if needed;
  • give general information.

It won’t deal with specific queries about individual accounts but it will help customers quickly find how to best use or access different features of our service. For example:

  • if you want to know what form you need to fill in for a particular situation or where to find that form;
  • if you need to know what information you should give us and how you can submit that information;
  • if you want to know the rules and regulations that apply to your specific situation.

This new facility doesn’t replace our customer service team who are still there to help when needed but it should give you a quick and easy way of finding answers to some of your queries.

Oliver.

Free money to help keep your tenants warm

Interested? You need to act quickly.

It’s not too late to apply for grants worth thousands of pounds under the Green Homes Scheme to make a property more energy efficient. Landlords can apply for a grant if they have a tenant who matches the eligibility criteria.

The grants are intended to help reduce the fuel bills for tenants – but any improvements that are gained to the property are free and will enhance its value for the landlord. So you win and your tenant wins.

But the deadline to apply is very nearly here.

You must get your application in by 5pm on 31 March 2021. If you’re interested, act now!

Go to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes-grant-scheme

Oliver

Special online landlord forum on Anti Social Behaviour

Along with the National and Residential Landlord Association we are hosting a special ONLINE landlord forum on Anti-Social behaviour in the private rented sector; how it affects landlords, what you need to know, what you can do about it and some of the help that might be available.

It’s at 4.00pm on Thursday 18th March 2021. Register for a place now. It’s FREE.

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/9055495716061713933

Oliver