Housing Benefit: working under 16 hours per-week

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gre20863 wrote: »

HB is a mean tested benefit and is award based on your income, if you certify to them what your income is (10 hrs a weeks) then they will pay it, however councils are reluctanct to pay when you are receiveign under the governement amount set for you to live on, which is £63.40 a week it think at the moment, so they do leagally have to pay your housing benefit while you are on a low income but they will pester you to death about your currently circs and you may find they keeop suspending your benefit, but as long as you keep intouch with them about what you are doing they have no right to state that after 6 weeks you get nothing. this is incorrect... I am an HB assessor

Million of thanks to you! You have helped a great deal! :T

I wonder why this council has given me so much wrong information ( the person answered my questions yesterday didn't sound like a native speaker ... very strange ...)