Tenant on benefits aint paid rent help.

brians_daughter

sorry - i see that you are already sorting getting direct payment. I doubt any loan/grant is available unless she went for some form of crisis loan, but i dont think this covers housing arrears when she has already had the money.. did she pay a deposit?? If so can you not agree to take the deposit and £10 pw therefore arrears are paid quickly ? i appreciate it is dodgy ground as you then have bo deposit from her but i cant think of any other way

KILL_BILL

so she has used the rent to pay for other things when in fact it should have gone to you

contact the council and they will pay you direct as clearly she cant manage money and then if you want to keep her as a tenant you will have to accept a vastly reduced amount from her direct for the amount that she owes from her benefits will prpb be pitance

diable

If you don't want to evict her and the Housing Association are now paying you directly I would try to come to an arrangement with the tenant so that she pays you a little bit of what she owes you every week, at least this way you will get the debt down slowly.

I wonder what would happen if you put the rent up and extra £50 pcm would the HA pay it?

bestpud

Pee wrote: »

Some of us would rather avoid ruining other people's lives if we can.

And some of us see thye roof over our head as a priority and would not spend money give us to pay our rent!

DEBT_23 wrote: »

the social dont pay her rent the local housing do ( council) rather than 'turf' her out i wanna try to help if i can. i understand the social may be able to help in certain cases i just aint sure if rent arrears in one of them.

Oooh, sounds good! I think I may spend my HB and apply for a second helping to keep my LL happy... :rolleyes:

brians_daughter wrote: »

sorry - i see that you are already sorting getting direct payment. I doubt any loan/grant is available unless she went for some form of crisis loan, but i dont think this covers housing arrears when she has already had the money.. did she pay a deposit?? If so can you not agree to take the deposit and £10 pw therefore arrears are paid quickly ? i appreciate it is dodgy ground as you then have bo deposit from her but i cant think of any other way

The proper way to sort this, now it has got this far, is to agree a repayment schedule and warn her action will be taken if she defaults on it! Or seek an eviction order now.

bestpud

diable wrote: »

If you don't want to evict her and the Housing Association are now paying you directly I would try to come to an arrangement with the tenant so that she pays you a little bit of what she owes you every week, at least this way you will get the debt down slowly.

I wonder what would happen if you put the rent up and extra £50 pcm would the HA pay it?

I'm sure that would be fraud! :rolleyes:

I can't believe people are suggesting the tax payer could help her out - she has had her rent paid once FGS! That is more than a lot of struggling families are getting at the moment!

Pee

It would not be fraud to raise the rent.

It would if raising the rent in anyway let her off the arrears.

Zara33

Pee wrote: »

It would not be fraud to raise the rent.

It would if raising the rent in anyway let her off the arrears.

Depends what the going rate is for the area atm, the OP could be charging his tennant full whack already, so if he stuck another £50 on to it then the tenant would have to find this all by themself rather than the council.

bestpud

Pee wrote: »

It would not be fraud to raise the rent.

It would if raising the rent in anyway let her off the arrears.

Yes, I know, and I'm sure diable didn't mean that at all - they just thought it would be helpful to put up the rent even though the tenant cannot afford the arrears already! :rolleyes:

Dave101t

what do you expect renting to a benefit class?

dmg24

Dave101t wrote: »

what do you expect renting to a benefit class?

Do you have anything valuable to add to this thread, or are you just trolling? :rolleyes: