Just received 'Housing Benefit changes' letter, not sure of the implications.

Sandwich

ani_26 wrote: »

Good question.



I pay my rent and my council tax out of my benefits. I receive £4 ctb per week, and £25 ish hb, ( give or take a few pence.)

So basically JSA and what not, that's what covers your rent and CT? Seems like you would be eligible for more support than that.

CKhalvashi

Sandwich wrote: »

I think you'll be okay because you're not in private rented. Somebody else will probably be able to confirm this.

You’ll be fine (I’m a Cllr for another council).

LHA is calculated on fair rents, of which HA properties fall into.

CK

whitelabel

ani_26 wrote: »

Good question.



I pay my rent and my council tax out of my benefits. I receive £4 ctb per week, and £25 ish hb, ( give or take a few pence.)

have you done a benefit check up from this site to check your entitlements ?

unless you have savings or a partner who earns a certain amount, you should be entitled to more

Joyful

ani 26

Do you have anyone else living with you? If not I would expect you not to have to pay from your benefits unless you have a private addition to it such as a pension. Check out https://www.turn2us.org.uk to see if you are getting all the help that you need.

ani_26

I just want to say, i've no wish to hijack the op's thread.

No, i don't have anyone else living with me.

No, i'm not in receipt of private income, pension, etc.

The benefits and sole income i am receiving, are indeed in terms of technical jargon and legality, state benefits.



Thankyou for your suggestions and links to websites. Of course i have checked my entilement to various help. It does indeed say i am entitled to " help ".


However, what online calculators suggest, and governmental organisations in real life provide, are poles apart, as are real life situations.


In " real life ", i have support from an organisation who has been contesting my benefits, for months now. However, they are not mohammed, and they too, are seemingly unable to move mountains, ( the system which provides the lap of luxury for all us scroungers.)



PS - Why is gas so expensive? I've an uncanny feeling i know you from somewhere. Maybe its coincidence.

ani_26

Sandwich wrote: »

So basically JSA and what not, that's what covers your rent and CT? Seems like you would be eligible for more support than that.

Yes, esa and what not.

onlyroz

Sandwich wrote: »

That's just a gross mischaracterisation of my position. Yes I am doing a PhD, but I switched from full-time to part-time when I ran into financial difficulties, so that I could start working. And I do work. I take all the work I can get as a matter of fact, but like a lot of people nowadays, I work on a casual, temporary, part-time basis and my income is low.

Would you rather I quit studying? I think it makes a lot more sense to keep plugging away at that so that in a year or so's time I in a good job earning a good salary and paying my taxes.

When I was doing a PhD I was paid £1100 a month tax free - and the vast majority of my fellow students lived in flat-shares. Have things changed in the last 6 years?

Dunroamin

onlyroz wrote: »

When I was doing a PhD I was paid £1100 a month tax free - and the vast majority of my fellow students lived in flat-shares. Have things changed in the last 6 years?

Funding for post graduate qualifications gets ever harder and even some undergraduate students believe they have a right to a flat of their own!

onlyroz

Dunroamin wrote: »

Funding for post graduate qualifications gets ever harder and even some undergraduate students believe they have a right to a flat of their own!

A flat of my own? What luxury. I spent my undergrad years without even a *room* of my own and I don't remember complaining.

Dunroamin

onlyroz wrote: »

A flat of my own? What luxury. I spent my undergrad years without even a *room* of my own and I don't remember complaining.

Me too - happy days!