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Suspend council house rent during coronavirus outbreak

Submitted on Monday 30th March 2020

Rejected on Friday 15th May 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Suspend council house rent during coronavirus outbreak

Petition Details

In this coronavirus outbreak it is difficult to pay rent so it a petition to suspend council house rent during covid 19 outbreak. Like mortgage rent holiday.

Additional Information

It is getting difficult to pay council house rent in this coronavirus outbreak so its a request petition to suspend council housing rent in this covid 10 outbreak.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Suspending payments for rent, council tax, mortgages and utilities is a matter for individual landlords, councils, mortgage providers and utility providers, and not the UK Government or Parliament.

If you want the Government to encourage lenders, landlords and utilities to freeze payments during lockdown, you may wish to sign this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302256

If you want the Government to require councils to suspend council tax payments during the coronavirus outbreak, you may wish to sign this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/303274

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus

www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

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