Housing Benefit Help

rainbowfairydust

my contract at work just recently ended at work so am currently unemployed & on JSA ( due to recive my first payment on wednesday).. anyway when i told my landlord about claiming HB he got a bit funny over the whole thing , so i cancelled this side of the claim (i'll manage for the month of july as have a little bit of money to tide me over for a month).
Do the HB people ring your landlord? Would i be able to set up the HB claim again without him knowing about it? I am hoping i will find a job fairly soon but just in case i think it might be an idea to get it up & running just in case....

ladyrider260

Get straight back in and claim! Your landlord doesn't have to know about it as long as you have a tenancy agreement. It's unlikely they will contact him.
You are entitled to claim help, please do so.

emiai

Haeve the money paid directly to you, into your bank account.

rainbowfairydust

ok... i do have tenancy agreement so will pop in tomorrow & get it sorted. :j

DX2

rainbowfairydust wrote: »

my contract at work just recently ended at work so am currently unemployed & on JSA ( due to recive my first payment on wednesday).. anyway when i told my landlord about claiming HB he got a bit funny over the whole thing , so i cancelled this side of the claim (i'll manage for the month of july as have a little bit of money to tide me over for a month).
Do the HB people ring your landlord? Would i be able to set up the HB claim again without him knowing about it? I am hoping i will find a job fairly soon but just in case i think it might be an idea to get it up & running just in case....

There may well be a perfectly good reason as to why he got a bit funny, IIRC it has something to do with his insurance.

kingfisherblue

I agree with DX2, there may be reasons that your landlord was unhappy. If he has a buy-to-let mortgage, he might have something in his paperwork forbidding him to rent to tenants receiving HB/LHA. His insurance might also be invalid.