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do i have to tell the landlord if i apply for housing benefit?

veronicamars_2 · 2011-03-30 10:07:47

do i have a legal obligation to tell the landlord if I'm claiming housing benefit? my job finishes next week and unless i get housing benefit I won't be able to pay the rent. I live in a shared house and i'm sure the ad for the room originally said no DHSS/benefits. i would ask the landlord, but we she's not very impressed…

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property.advert Posts: 4,087 Forumite

30 March 2011 at 8:13PM

On the HB forms it asks whether you give consent for your LL to be contacted. If you say no, then they cannot.

As for the OP, she should inform her LL because her HB will not be sorted out by rent day and she states that she cannot pay the rent !

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