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Can i move to different city while on benefits?
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I was working for a year but had to stop due to an injury and have been out of work for about 8 months, groan.
I have a degree in science and am currently living in Edinburgh on housing benefit and job seekers allowance(can't find a job in my subject, i could take a general job which is what i will have to do soon i think). I am thinking of moving back to Glasgow where most of my friends are and will hopefully have more luck finding a job in my subject, do you think i will be able to change housing benefit from city to city if i find a place to rent in Glasgow or do you think there will be problems with this from the council?
I am also thinking of starting up my own business in web design but it's going to take a while to get moving hence i still need the benefit for a few months more.. Or maybe i will find another job in Glasgow that pays the rent.
I just have a niggling feeling that the council might think i am moving from place to place and not grant me housing benefit which i am not, the real issue is now is that i miss my frriends in Glasgow! and am getting really lonley here now, it's really starting to affect my helath, depression etc... As i said i haven't been working for a while but mainly due to an injury i picked up but i now really don't feel at home here. I do hope to be working in the next few months...
I just don't want to appear as a 'city hoper' on benefits, but i think i will have a much better chance of doing well in Glasgow now rather than Edinburgh, it's really getting me down.
What do you think?
I have a degree in science and am currently living in Edinburgh on housing benefit and job seekers allowance(can't find a job in my subject, i could take a general job which is what i will have to do soon i think). I am thinking of moving back to Glasgow where most of my friends are and will hopefully have more luck finding a job in my subject, do you think i will be able to change housing benefit from city to city if i find a place to rent in Glasgow or do you think there will be problems with this from the council?
I am also thinking of starting up my own business in web design but it's going to take a while to get moving hence i still need the benefit for a few months more.. Or maybe i will find another job in Glasgow that pays the rent.
I just have a niggling feeling that the council might think i am moving from place to place and not grant me housing benefit which i am not, the real issue is now is that i miss my frriends in Glasgow! and am getting really lonley here now, it's really starting to affect my helath, depression etc... As i said i haven't been working for a while but mainly due to an injury i picked up but i now really don't feel at home here. I do hope to be working in the next few months...
I just don't want to appear as a 'city hoper' on benefits, but i think i will have a much better chance of doing well in Glasgow now rather than Edinburgh, it's really getting me down.
What do you think?
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Yes you can claim in Glasgow, obviously you will have make a new claim for Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance for private lets) as it is a different council.0
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Yes you can claim in Glasgow, obviously you will have make a new claim for Housing Benefit (Local Housing Allowance for private lets) as it is a different council.
Thanks, so if i can find a place to rent in the West end of Glasgow(decent part) that is within the Benefit allowance then this will be ok?0 -
yes , not a problem
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