What is the housing benefit for Part time work?

Spendless

I understand what you mean now. You live with your parents and they are in receipt of housing benefit cos they don't work/have a low income. You living there didn't make a difference to their HB claim cos you were a student. Now you have left your income is taken into account, sorry forgot figures you originally posted but you are working 12 hours and the amount your parents lose in HB is the equivalent of all (most) of your wages, and you are wondering if you can get any help.

I don't know what the answer is, but hopefully someone will once the question is a bit clearer.

bestpud

Spendless wrote: »

I understand what you mean now. You live with your parents and they are in receipt of housing benefit cos they don't work/have a low income. You living there didn't make a difference to their HB claim cos you were a student. Now you have left your income is taken into account, sorry forgot figures you originally posted but you are working 12 hours and the amount your parents lose in HB is the equivalent of all (most) of your wages, and you are wondering if you can get any help.

I don't know what the answer is, but hopefully someone will once the question is a bit clearer.

Yes, that's the conclusion I have come to.

Basically, the OP is either the only working adult or, as you say their wages are being added to the household income.

What I don't understand is why you are being sent the bill, OP?

I assume the tenenacy is still in your parents' names so they would now be told they no longer qualify for HB and thus have to pay full rent, not you.

It would be up to them to reclaim the lost benefit from you, not the council.

You should be paying your parents 'keep' so they can cover the extra costs of you living there and, no, you won't get any help with that.

And BTW, your attitude stinks!! Generally it is better not to be antsy with people whom you have asked for help! Have a look back through your threads, objectively, and you will see what the problem is. 'Academic' writing has to communicate ideas and facts clearly, so I fail to see why you can't follow the same principle on an internet forum?

Oldernotwiser

Sorry, but I'm still puzzled. In post #5 she says, "I am living in shared housing so each person in the house pays a simlar price weekly". This doesn't sound to me like someone who lives at home with her parents!

bestpud

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Sorry, but I'm still puzzled. In post #5 she says, "I am living in shared housing so each person in the house pays a simlar price weekly". This doesn't sound to me like someone who lives at home with her parents!

No, I think the whole thread is suspect tbh!

We seem to have an influx of them again - must be the wet weather keeping them all indoors!

seven-day-weekend

Snowqueen, no one hates you. It was just that you hadn't given the information and what you had given was worded in such a way that no-one understood what you were saying.

If you'd have written as you did in your post 29, I'm, sure there would not have been a problem.

No-one can give you information if they don't know what they question is, or don't understand fully the situation.

I still don't understand why you are paying the rent if it is your parents' tenancy, but assume you mean that you are now expected to contribute whereas you were not before. See - it's not very clear, is it?

Anyway, the answer, as Oldernot iser says, is that if you are living at home with your parents and are not a student, you won't be entitled to any Housing benefit.

Hope this helps.

snowqueen555

Hi,

I am not being sent the bill. The bill is in my dad's name but I am the reason for the charge so I am paying for it.

As for the per person rent thing 'shared housing' comment, I said that because my friend said that for each additional working adult living in a council home (including the folks), they have to pay rent for themselves, so thats the logic I am working on. My parents are on housing benefit so they dont pay, but I do now. I am like the additional adult living there, so its like shared housing, shared with my family!

I think I should apologise then for not being clear, I tend not to write in a very comprhensible way when I am doing general posting, but I will make sure when I am talking about more complicated issues, to be more clear.

I think Spendless has nailed it on the head, but he'she said it in a much simpler way.

terryw

You are not the tenant. You will not receive HB. Your parents claim HB but they will have this reduced as you have an income. Use the benefits calculator already suggested and bung in you parents' income to ascertain any reduction in HB that they will have.

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terryw

Spendless

Ok - so the £60 you are required to pay to make up the loss on your parents HB claim, is that on a sliding scale to do with wages, or is it £60 regardless of what you earn- do you know?

If it's £60 regardless, then you need to look at increasing hours/getting better paid job/2nd job.

If it's on a sliding scale, then you need to check if £60 loss of HB is correct against you fetching £70 into the household.

btw- I'm female

glossgal

Ok, as far as I can see:
OP was 'disregarded' as living with her folks whilst she was a student. Now she isn't she is a 'non-dependant' instead and so her folks will have their hosuing and council tax benefit reduced accordingly. She is supposed to make up the shortfall but in reality it will be the tenant.

Non dependant deductions for people in work are on a sliding scale ie if you earn a fair amount your parents are soon going to hate you lol...seriously, if you're working part time then the reduction off benefit is probably about 30% (cant remember the exact figures). Am I warm?

Contains_Mild_Peril

I'm in Scotland so some of the rules might be different up here, but - when I was thinking of moving in with my brother to share his rented flat after I split with my husband, I was told that I would not be able to claim housing benefit, but my bro's housing benefit (which afaik was for part of his rent, not the whole amount) would be reduced by £7.50 a week since he would have a non-dependent adult (me) with a small part-time income staying with him. I, of course, would then give the difference in HB to my brother, as well as paying my share of other bills.
There's a big difference between £7.50 and £60, so even though the circumstances are not identical I suspect an error may have been made in your case. If someone at the HB office has misunderstood the situation it may be better to ask if the tenants (your parents) can start from the beginning with a new application, but your local CAB will be in a better position to advise about that.