Help for my little bro?

Lifeisbutadream

I have just looked on the benefit checker and it is saying that based on my guess of £575 per month rent he could get £52 a week in HB - does that sound right? I certainly dont want to tell him anything like that if it is incorrect.

RAS

What's your local housing allowance and what age is your brother?

Lifeisbutadream

RAS wrote: »

What's your local housing allowance and what age is your brother?

He is not local to me - he is near Bradford - I dont know the area at all. He is 32.

Lifeisbutadream

Pam17 wrote: »

He needs to take advice from a solicitor regarding the house and most particularly his son. In this day and age whats to stop the son living with his father. He can make a claim for both the child benefit and tax credits himself and she can pay him maintenance.

He would love to have his son living with him.

The house is in his wifes name - when they bought the house they were not able to get a mortgage in his name as he had debts (which he has now sorted out).

I am not sure what would happen with the house - I am sure that he will be happy to walk away and let her have the negative equity though!

RAS

This web-site lists the Local Housing Allowance for England. http://www.voa.gov.uk/lhadirect/BRMA_April_2011.htm

if you brother rents somewhere with more rooms or that costs more, then he does not get LHA to make up the shortfall. Which may be a problem as he is under 35. You need to ask some like Gingerbread what is happening to parents under 35 with shared care.

janninew

Hi Op,

Can your brother not be the parent with care? I know most people think it should be the Mother, but I don't see why this has to be the case. Your brother sounds like he wants to do the right think so I wish him luck.

Lifeisbutadream

janninew wrote: »

Hi Op,

Can your brother not be the parent with care? I know most people think it should be the Mother, but I don't see why this has to be the case. Your brother sounds like he wants to do the right think so I wish him luck.

Not that I wish to take sides, or speak badly about my sister in law, she is the one who has decided that she wants to leave to s**g her toy boy, having left their son with my bro almost every night for the last few months and has now asked him to take their little boy to my Mums with him as she doesnt have time to look after him, so yes, I really hope that he does become the parent with care.

RAS

If he has had the child almost every night, he is the parent with care.

That would make the situation very different, but the starting point is that he needs to get the child benefit paid to him. Once that happens all the other benefits will fall into place.

He should them get the two bed housing allowance, CB, WTC, CTC, LHA and 15% of her income. IS the little one at nursery?

He needs to talk to a solicitor to get advice but there is not reason he cannot go to court on his own account to get a residency order.

mrsspendalot

RAS wrote: »

If he has had the child almost every night, he is the parent with care.

That would make the situation very different, but the starting point is that he needs to get the child benefit paid to him. Once that happens all the other benefits will fall into place.

He should them get the two bed housing allowance, CB, WTC, CTC, LHA and 15% of her income. IS the little one at nursery?

I agree, if he is caring for the child the most at the moment, he needs to put a claim in for the child benefit etc. However, once the mother realises what this all means, don't be surprised if she suddenly drops the amount of contact so she remains the PWC and therefore remains the one entitled to all the benefits associated with having the child.

Lifeisbutadream

RAS wrote: »

If he has had the child almost every night, he is the parent with care.

That would make the situation very different, but the starting point is that he needs to get the child benefit paid to him. Once that happens all the other benefits will fall into place.

He should them get the two bed housing allowance, CB, WTC, CTC, LHA and 15% of her income. IS the little one at nursery?

He needs to talk to a solicitor to get advice but there is not reason he cannot go to court on his own account to get a residency order.

No they still live together, I mean that she has been out every night 'entertaining' her new man (although he has only just found out what she has been doing)