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Notifying Landlord of housing benefit?
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I'm sorry I've offended you.Oh, that's a huge relief.
I'm absolutely delighted that you gave up your job (for your mental health) in the toughest recessions since the 1930s, and that those who can be bothered to go to work in the morning happily know we are paying your rent for you. I was worried you might be penniless you see, but now I will be able to sleep soundly tonight.
Now, if you'll excuse me for a moment, I need to go and create some wealth so that that roof will stay over your head tonight.
I'm also sorry that you don't see someone's mental health as an important part of their overall health. I have worked continuously since I was 14 (I worked weekends and every holiday throughout school and Uni), and my current job was actually making me ill. My workplace has people leaving left right and centre, has many people signed off sick with stress, and it got to the point where I could just not face going in every day. My team had been halved, with myself as the most senior member being allocated the majority of the work. This was not a choice I would normally make in any circumstances, but when I am having to get off the tube in the mornings because I am crying so hard, something needs to happen.
I am hoping not to have to use this at all, and use my savings which I have built up, but I am looking for a solution in case that doesn't happen.
Believe me it wasn't an easy choice, but I'm working to get out the situation I have put myself in.0 -
Stress is not a reason to be off sick. Stress is part and parcel of being in a job. People use this 'mental health' thing all the time - are you certified as having mental health problems, and on medication.
Evidently, there are currently around 500,000 people who are 'too depressed' to work and are receiving incapacity benefit.
It's quite remarkable, because before incapacity benefit appeared, there was almost noone not working because they were 'sad and stressed.'
I suppose i should congratulate society on this new development. Well, I would, if people didnt seem to be taking it as a lifestyle choice, at my expense.
I feel sad and depressed now. I think I'll go home and let someone else pay my way for me . ..0 -
In the past I have been yes. I have suffered from clinical depression, diagnosed and medicated. I decided to take action before I got to that point this time. I am not claiming any other benefits at all, and have not even made a firm decision to claim HB - I am merely looking at possibilities.
I thrive on stress - I work best when pushed to deadlines, and when I'm busy. I don't work well, when every little thing I do is questioned by new management who put in to place new systems that make the job a living nightmare, and who refuse to listen to anyone who actually knows anything about the role. I did not quit my job because I was stressed. I quit my job because I was worried that my health would suffer more then it already had been. The levels of stress I was under led to hospitalisation by ambulance for a back spasm that the doctors declared as being caused by stress. Having to take Valium to be able to move is really not that fun, let me assure you. So please don't think you can accuse me of quitting to let someone pay my way. I am paying my way at the moment and merely looking for solutions for a potential future problem.0 -
Stress is not a reason to be off sick. Stress is part and parcel of being in a job. People use this 'mental health' thing all the time - are you certified as having mental health problems, and on medication.
Evidently, there are currently around 500,000 people who are 'too depressed' to work and are receiving incapacity benefit.
It's quite remarkable, because before incapacity benefit appeared, there was almost noone not working because they were 'sad and stressed.'
I suppose i should congratulate society on this new development. Well, I would, if people didnt seem to be taking it as a lifestyle choice, at my expense.
I feel sad and depressed now. I think I'll go home and let someone else pay my way for me . ..
Whilst I agree with the sentiment of what your saying about time off for stress taken being to easy I don't think its right to attack someone on this board for their actions whether you agree with them or not. Whilst it may be frustrating to know that the majority of people that are on the sick for stress maybe taking advantage of the system not everyone is.
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Stress is not a reason to be off sick. Stress is part and parcel of being in a job. People use this 'mental health' thing all the time - are you certified as having mental health problems, and on medication.
Evidently, there are currently around 500,000 people who are 'too depressed' to work and are receiving incapacity benefit.
It's quite remarkable, because before incapacity benefit appeared, there was almost noone not working because they were 'sad and stressed.'
I suppose i should congratulate society on this new development. Well, I would, if people didnt seem to be taking it as a lifestyle choice, at my expense.
I feel sad and depressed now. I think I'll go home and let someone else pay my way for me . ..
You clearly don't understand what effect clinical depression or diagnosed stress/ anxiety has on your ability to perform even the most basic tasks (at my worst I found answering the phone overwhelming!) never mind the more demanding aspects of some work roles.
I didn't work for two years due to a combination of mental health issues and for part of the time I relied on Incapacity Benefits. Prior to that I had worked from the age of 16 to 30. I effectively 'chose' to stop working: one day I just couldn't cope with getting up for work. It has been suggested to me since that I had a breakdown tho this was never said at the time.
My initial presentation at my GPs was chronic insomnia, permanent tremors and 'butterflies'/ queasiness such that I had lost a substantial amount of body weight. All these were the result of the excess of adrenaline in my system: left unchecked this can damage the heart and other organs.
Studies have proven that those with disorders of mental health die younger than those who do not (ten to fifteen years for severe mental illness), are far more likely to smoke, to be sedentary, and to have a whole range of physical health problems including diabetes.
If you'd ever had clinical depression or anxiety you'd understand how crippling the characteristic negative and repetitive thought patterns can be. Sleep deprivation can induce a temporary form of psychosis, hardly making one the ideal employee!
I was prescribed a cocktail of sleeping tablets, sedatives and anti-depressants over the course of the following couple of years, but not everyone wants or needs medication. I also 'self-medicated' a good deal which is not to be recommended.
Yes there are people who fake mental health problems but there are many more genuine cases. It's not a lifestyle choice to be genuinely depressed, it's internal torture. Getting out of the situation - where that is possible - is addressing the cause not treating the symptoms.Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️0 -
musingsofnikki wrote: »I'm sorry I've offended you.
I'm also sorry that you don't see someone's mental health as an important part of their overall health. I have worked continuously since I was 14 (I worked weekends and every holiday throughout school and Uni), and my current job was actually making me ill. My workplace has people leaving left right and centre, has many people signed off sick with stress, and it got to the point where I could just not face going in every day. My team had been halved, with myself as the most senior member being allocated the majority of the work. This was not a choice I would normally make in any circumstances, but when I am having to get off the tube in the mornings because I am crying so hard, something needs to happen.
I am hoping not to have to use this at all, and use my savings which I have built up, but I am looking for a solution in case that doesn't happen.
Believe me it wasn't an easy choice, but I'm working to get out the situation I have put myself in.
It might be worth exploring whether you are entitled to ESA, as well as housing benefit, if you are seeing your GP and he/she considers you 'unfit for work' with depression/anxiety etc.,
http://campaigns.dwp.gov.uk/esa/
Lin
You can tell a lot about a woman by her hands..........for instance, if they are placed around your throat, she's probably slightly upset.
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I left my job and got JSA & HB no problems, didn't have to wait long either. No-one cme round to look at the place.0
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Stress is not a reason to be off sick. Stress is part and parcel of being in a job. People use this 'mental health' thing all the time - are you certified as having mental health problems, and on medication.
Evidently, there are currently around 500,000 people who are 'too depressed' to work and are receiving incapacity benefit.
It's quite remarkable, because before incapacity benefit appeared, there was almost noone not working because they were 'sad and stressed.'
I suppose i should congratulate society on this new development. Well, I would, if people didnt seem to be taking it as a lifestyle choice, at my expense.
I feel sad and depressed now. I think I'll go home and let someone else pay my way for me . ..
why do Doctors write you off work then?!
I do find it too easy to claim 'ill health' though.0 -
Getting back to what the OP asked, I would inform your LL of your change in circumstances. I can't see it would be a problem, as you would appear to have a track record of paying on time. It wouldn't put me off, as I have a tenant who has had to do the same thing, though I as the LL was approached and had to write to the HB office to confirm what she was renting and how much rent was due each month. So to try and hide it might be difficult. There may be a delay in it coming through as already stated, so your savings may be required for a few months.
"Life is difficult. Life is a series of problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one." M Scott Peck. The Road Less Travelled.0 -
musingsofnikki - if you have sufficient funding to cover rent during any benefit delays then my suggestion would be to not discuss the matter with the LL until *after* you have actually sorted your claim out.
If you are continuing to pay your rent on time, and you are still within your fixed term then it is irrelevant. The LL may have a mortgage under the terms of which she is not supposed to let to tenants in receipt of benefits but they can't kick you out during a fixed term.
If you have a copy of your tenancy agreement that is all that is needed by the LHA officers: ask them to note on your file that at this stage that you do not want your LL to be aware of your claim for benefit. Then reconsider what you want to do: one stage at a time
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