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ilovemyhouse
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Hi, housing benefit is to pay rent, it isn't to pay a mortgage so even if you did only have one home, you still wouldn't be eligible for housing benefit.Overactively underachieving for almost half a century0
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ilovemyhouse wrote: »if not let this be a warning to anyone who want to help their kids out on the property ladder
I think you are being selective about about your "warning".
I think your warning should be about buying properties for other people (inc family) when you rely on the state to pay for your roof.
I for one am glad that it prohibits you claiming HB. Why should the tax-payer pay your mortgage/rent when you own another property? We would all do it wouldnt we?
Don't mean to sound harsh but I guess it is what it is.
Have you spoke to your mortgage lender? Looked into SMI?
D70How about no longer being masochistic?
How about remembering your divinity?
How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out?
How about not equating death with stopping?0 -
ilovemyhouse wrote: »hi just read a post about housing benifit with second home classed as capital....became unemployed and have now been told that we are not entilted to any means tested benifit as we have capitalNotSuchASmugMarriedNow wrote: »Hi, housing benefit is to pay rent, it isn't to pay a mortgage so even if you did only have one home, you still wouldn't be eligible for housing benefit.
I think you misread the OP. They became aware of the second home issue after reading someone else's post about HB and have had a claim for their own means tested benefit - probably JSA(IB) - turned down for the same reason.0 -
I think you are being selective about about your "warning".
I think your warning should be about buying properties for other people (inc family) when you rely on the state to pay for your roof.
I for one am glad that it prohibits you claiming HB. Why should the tax-payer pay your mortgage/rent when you own another property? We would all do it wouldnt we?
Don't mean to sound harsh but I guess it is what it is.
Have you spoke to your mortgage lender? Looked into SMI?0 -
ilovemyhouse wrote: »hi if you read my post i dont want housing benefit i just want some help as to what i am entiltled to so please dont be so harsh on someone before you know the whole story hope this never happens to you when you ask for help feel bad enough as it is:mad:
For all posters know, it is the whole story, if you dont give the whole story, then any advice given is completely meaningless.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
and we will never, ever return.0 -
ilovemyhouse wrote: »hi if you read my post i dont want housing benefit i just want some help as to what i am entiltled to so please dont be so harsh on someone before you know the whole story hope this never happens to you when you ask for help feel bad enough as it is:mad:
As above, state the whole story then.
Unless you tell the whole story, we assume what you posted was the whole story.
D70How about no longer being masochistic?
How about remembering your divinity?
How about unabashedly bawling your eyes out?
How about not equating death with stopping?0
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