Housing benefit stopped

pugsygirl

Received a letter and a bill for £1500 today saying HB and CTB had been stopped. I earn £500 per month and husbands earnings fluctuate between £200 and £600 per month. TCs are 500 per month. How do they reach this descision?? We are clearly not going to manage on what we get, rent is £650, childcare £300, utilities£90. , council tax£185. plus vehicle costs, food costs (which are cut down to barest minimum)We are both actively looking for more work with little success.

How can they just stop and Not Pay us anything at all and then just drmand it back when it is clear that we cannot afford to pay?Excuse me for my ignorance but am new to the benefits system (just lost my home and business due to bankruptcy)

Do these things not work on a sliding scale? Should we not be entitled to something, due to our low income?

Please be gentle with me if I am asking stupid questions, am at my wits end, after the horrific few years we have had.

Naf

I could have a look... would you be prepared to either post up your income details and circumstances, or PM them? I've been through claming so many times.
Does OH's pay usually come closer to the £600 or the £200, and why the variation? The council will be basing this on the average, either that or if it really varies a lot they might have to recalculate every month.

karenx

So on a good month your income is 1600? Def wont get any housing or council tax benefit on that. Even on £1200 a month I doubt you will get much

real1314

karenx wrote: »

So on a good month your income is 1600? Def wont get any housing or council tax benefit on that. Even on £1200 a month I doubt you will get much

You clearly know very little about HB. Perhaps you should stick to advising on things you know something about?

Have you considered earnings disregards? Composition of the household? Childcare disregards? LHA decision on the number of rooms? The LHA Level?

£1200 a month is £277 a week. Plenty of families get HB at that level of income. :cool:

Naf

I was getting a reasonable amount of HB, and some CTB, on 1590. So lets hear the situation first.