housing benefit help

emsywoo123

iamana1ias wrote: »

Ah, the traditional family unit. Superb. :T

You really are a rude individual :mad:

DX2

iamana1ias wrote: »

She has a baby boy and an 11 year old girl, not 2 girls.

I'm also wondering where the baby-daddy is...........

Thanks for that! Gawd my senior moments are getting worse.

DX2

Are you geting child support for any of your children? This may help with the shortfall in your rent.

ilovemybabiessomuch

Jowo wrote: »

Have you considered asking for discretionary housing benefit?

And can you confirm if this £138 charge is just a one off, as they have switched paying your LHA on a 4 week cycle to a monthly cycle, so there is just this single adjustment to make the dates marry?

If so, why not contact your landlord to explain that there is an unexpected shortfall due a no notice change in payment dates, apologise and offer a repayment schedule to pay it back as quickly as you can afford. If you do this, make sure you keep a letter to your landlord and that you stick the repayment schedule you offer. But it would be better if you could not get into arrears in the first place. Perhaps your partner would like to loan or give you this money?

I've never heard of someone on LHA getting it on a monthly basis. Perhaps they've started to do this because so many tenants and landlords get confused because LHA is typically paid every 4 weeks, but most landlords charge rent on a monthly basis.

Also, do note that there appears to be downward trend for LHA as the govt seeks to control public spending. For example, there is a proposal to start basis LHA rents on the lowest third of local market rents whereas it is now based on the median (change from 50th percentile to 30th percentile) so it is likely that many households could face some kind of squeeze in the future.

thankyou jowo
i would phone my landlord but nearly every month something happens with housing so my rent is always late, they are nice people but will give them a break this month lol.
the babys dad is going to loan me the money which im very grateful for, hes a wonderful daddy and wont see his son suffer if he can help out, so am now ok can relax thankgod, i was in a right state over the weekend, i so hate being on benefits its stresses me out so much that i cant go out to work.

thanks again for your help

ilovemybabiessomuch

DX2 wrote: »

Are you geting child support for any of your children? This may help with the shortfall in your rent.

lol i should be getting child support for my daughter but her dad has decided he wont be paying
my babys dad is very good, i get money off him but recently had that and had to completely go update babys clothes, if i had of got a letter from housing i would have held off with the babys clothes.

thorsoak

ilovemybabiessomuch wrote: »

........
the babys dad is going to loan me the money which im very grateful for, hes a wonderful daddy and wont see his son suffer if he can help out, ...........

It shouldn't be a case of if he can help out - HE SHOULD BE HELPING OUT ALL THE TIME - it takes two to make a baby and he should be bearing half the costs of this baby - as I hope are the fathers of your two other children. As I said before, it shouldn't all be down to you and to the State.

ilovemybabiessomuch

thorsoak wrote: »

It shouldn't be a case of if he can help out - HE SHOULD BE HELPING OUT ALL THE TIME - it takes two to make a baby and he should be bearing half the costs of this baby - as I hope are the fathers of your two other children. As I said before, it shouldn't all be down to you and to the State.

ah yes thats what i mean, i said can the wrong way i think, it made sense to me when i typed it, yes he helps all the time, my baby is in need of nothing his dad will get him anything he needs.

Duncombe

ilovemybabiessomuch wrote: »

i so hate being on benefits its stresses me out so much that i cant go out to work.

I'm sure you didnt mean this to sound as utterly ridiculous as it does.

But as the others have said, the fathers of your children should be helping out financially all of the time - not just 'when they can'.

You really need to make that a priority.