A bereaved family is being forced to pay rent as a guarantor after their son’s death, the Commons has heard, with the Deputy Prime Minister branding it “abhorrent” and committing to consider reform.
Labour MP Helen Hayes described how a first year university student, who had taken on a private tenancy agreement for a property for the following year, died by suicide, and said the letting agents are “disgracefully insisting on enforcing this abhorrent requirement” for the family as guarantor to pay the costs.
