Ar ôl gweithio’n agos gyda Cartrefi Cymunedol Cymru a Cymorth Cymru, cyrff sy’n cynrychioli Landlordiaid Cymdeithasol Cofrestredig a darparwyr llety â chymorth, ac ar ôl trafodaethau manwl gyda’r Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau, ysgrifennodd fy swyddogion at Landlordiaid Cymdeithasol Cofrestredig a darparwyr llety â chymorth ar 22 Rhagfyr. Nododd y llythyr hwnnw ein bod yn bwriadu gwneud newid deddfwriaethol a fyddai’n ôl-weithredol ei effaith, er mwyn cyfreithloni’r holl ffioedd sydd wedi’u codi ers i Ddeddf 2019 ddod i rym. Roedd yn esbonio bod swyddogion wedi cytuno â’r Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau, yng ngoleuni’r effaith negyddol bosibl ar fudd-daliadau unigolion, na fyddai rhoi’r gorau i godi ffioedd gwasanaeth tra bo’r newid deddfwriaethol yn cael ei wneud o fudd i’r tenantiaid hynny. Aeth y llythyr yn ei flaen i ddweud na fyddai Gweinidogion Cymru yn ceisio cymryd unrhyw gamau yn erbyn Landlordiaid Cymdeithasol Cofrestredig mewn perthynas â’r mater hwn, yn rhinwedd eu swydd fel rheoleiddwyr.
Following close liaison with Community Housing Cymru and Cymorth Cymru, as bodies representing RSLs and supported accommodation providers, and detailed discussions with the Department for Work and Pensions, my officials wrote to RSLs and providers of supported accommodation on 22 December. That letter set out that we were intending to make a legislative change which would be retrospective in effect, so that all of the charges which have been required since the 2019 Act came into force would be regularised. It explained that in light of the potential harmful impact on individuals’ benefit claims, officials had agreed with the Department for Work and Pensions that ceasing to request service charge payments pending a legislative change would not be in the best interests of those tenants. The letter went on to say that the Welsh Ministers would not be seeking to take any action in respect of this issue against any RSL in its capacity as the regulator.