evidence: In January I moved my buy-to-let mortgage to NatWest and last week when I approached them about releasing some equity and confirming that the rental payments come from the NIHE (Northern Ireland Housing Executive), the response was that this made me in breach of my contract and it was their policy not to give mortgages to landlords who let to people on housing benefits. They then formally asked me to "seek an alternative tenant" simply because my tenant is in recipient of "Social Security/Government benefits". I was and still am utterly disgusted by this statement. [...] 60% of adults on housing benefits are women 95% of single parent housing benefit claimants are women 66% of all single person household benefit claims are made by women. What the banks are doing is establishing a system that is designed to specifically discriminate against women. The facts speak for themselves. There are more than one million families in the UK waiting on the government to provide social housing. Surely, this could be alleviated by landlords being allowed to let to these families. According to Shelter, eight million people, myself included, are only one paycheck away from being unable to pay for their home. This issue could affect us all, not only those currently receiving social benefits.