Urgent housing help needed!

ChaseMe

sarahevie wrote: »

Completely disagree that you haven't done anything wrong - you are 26 support yourself. I left home at 18, I'm not 26 with my own mortgaged home and two children. I also work part time and I'm studying for a PhD - get on with it

Your own mortgaged home, or in your name but hubby actually pays for it.?.

Caz3121

I am surprised that their housing benefit was not being paid direct to the housing association once they started falling into arrears. You say you are recently unemployed, before then they would have lost housing benefit due to your income so it may be that this is the gap that has built up if your rent/digs was not being used towards the rent. Have they informed the housing benefit people you are no longer working?

poppasmurf_bewdley

I would suggest an urgent meeting between yourself and parents and the Housing Association to see if anything can be sorted out.

Louise03

OP - You are 26, unemployed, have debts, living with !!!!less parents and soon to be homeless. Your life is going nowhere. However, you come across as articulate and hopefully you look presentable - So my suggestion to you, is that you start looking for a live in job, hotel or au pair? This will give you a roof over your head and a wage.

LisaB85

Caz3121 wrote: »

I am surprised that their housing benefit was not being paid direct to the housing association once they started falling into arrears. You say you are recently unemployed, before then they would have lost housing benefit due to your income so it may be that this is the gap that has built up if your rent/digs was not being used towards the rent. Have they informed the housing benefit people you are no longer working?

I was paying rent to cover the HB they lost, as far as I am aware they used it for that but not sure I trust them anymore.

LisaB85

Mikazaru wrote: »

Start looking at flat shares now, the local council may help you with your deposit and as you've got four weeks you'll have your JSA to put towards any shortfall.
Has your mum being paying anything to the rent at all recently?

I think so, but who knows if she has or hasn't they manage to have plenty of nice days out etc, my jsa goes towards paying HB shortfall, food, transport to look for work I have nothing spare.

LisaB85

!!!!!! wrote: »

Your tone appears to say that you are angry with your Mum because her lack of action means that you will have to use your JSA to support yourself rather than using it to enjoy yourself.

My JSA goes on food, transport to look for work, clothing, essentials....the last time I went out for a drink to enjoy myself....April 28th

I'm angry at how stupid they have been and !!!!ed my life up when I was trying to sort it, find a job, pass my driving test, find a place of my own then find a better job. I have sorted my debts and trying really hard now theres this huge set back when I've kept my side of the bargain paying HB shortfall due to my income and feeding myself.

Would be no different if I rented a room in a house and they didn't pay the rent.

LisaB85

Louise03 wrote: »

OP - You are 26, unemployed, have debts, living with !!!!less parents and soon to be homeless. Your life is going nowhere. However, you come across as articulate and hopefully you look presentable - So my suggestion to you, is that you start looking for a live in job, hotel or au pair? This will give you a roof over your head and a wage.

Thanks for reminding me, add possible cervical cancer into it and you've got a big mess.

I actually know a couple who live in a hotel and run it so will see if they have any contacts, I wouldn't know where to look but ideally it would be a live in job on a farm, which is what I was working towards anyway.

LisaB85

ellenette wrote: »

YES MAKE THAT A PRIORITY IN THE MORNING!!!!!!

Get round the table and try to come up with a solution even at this late stage even if you have to take control and tell the HA the truth.

Easier said than done as my mum puts it 'She knows what she is doing' and refuses to discuss. She is hostile at the best of times, not sure she would let me take charge.

poppasmurf_bewdley

LisaB85 wrote: »

Easier said than done as my mum puts it 'She knows what she is doing' and refuses to discuss. She is hostile at the best of times, not sure she would let me take charge.

Tell her that she evidently doesn't know what she is doing.

Tell her that you are going to arrange a meeting, come what may. If she and your Dad come, they come, if they don't they don't. I would suggest you tell them that you are going to see if the tenancy can be transferred to you.

Remind her that if they do nothing, then they are going to be homeless with a month.