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Finding a flat to rent with one person getting housing benefit
purplegirluk1
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I am looking for a two bedroomed property to share with a friend. We both work but my friend is self employed and so recieves housing benefit. I work as a full time teacher.
We have been looking for a place for a while now and have not seen very many properties that will accept housing benefit. Does anyone have any suggestions of places to look? We have found a few private lets in local papers but they go really quickly. All the agencies in the area (Folkestone, Kent) will not accept housing benefit even though my friend is employed.
Any suggestions would be greatfully recieved as we are getting resperate and I cannot afford to pay the full rent by myself.
We have been looking for a place for a while now and have not seen very many properties that will accept housing benefit. Does anyone have any suggestions of places to look? We have found a few private lets in local papers but they go really quickly. All the agencies in the area (Folkestone, Kent) will not accept housing benefit even though my friend is employed.
Any suggestions would be greatfully recieved as we are getting resperate and I cannot afford to pay the full rent by myself.
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Do you need to tell them HB is involved? If you're both working, wouldn't have thought they'd be concerned?0
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If you both had references and a deposit and could afford to pay the rent until the housing benefit started to be paid, I would consider you as tennats.
Do check the HB situation, I understood it depended on total household income, so if you are renting a place together you may count as one household in benefit eyes.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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