already been repossessed now redundant- SOMEONE HELP PLEASE

japanesegirl

Hello we got lots of help from this site when our house was being repossessed. House was repossessed IN FEB 2007 and have managed to rent. Just getting on top of things and now husband is being made redundant on the 28th Sep, i was made redundant last year and have claimed for 6 months so now not able to claim anything. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE TELL US what we are going to live on???? we have 2 children and at the moment have been told we are only entitled to £10 per week!!!! we have both worked for over 20 years!!!

pLEASE TELL US WHAT TO DO, PLEASE AND THANK YOU

brummiebabe

Don't have the answer unfortunately, but I'm sure someone will come along with some advice shortly......wanted to bump the post for you, so you may get a helpful reply.

Have you tried the site 'entitledto.co.uk' (I think that's what it's called anyway) How about seeing CAB for advice?

kissjenn

Hi,

If you are both unemployed with no other source of income you may be entitled to a joint JSA claim, for both contributory and non-contributory benefit.

On top of this you can claim

• Housing Benefit (if local authority housing) or Local Housing Allowance (if private let).
• Council Tax Benefit
• Child Tax Credit
• Child Benefit.

Is your OH getting a redundancy payment and of how much? Did you get one and again how much is now left? This may reduce what you get as they will for some benefits treat the amount as nominal income.