Always better off working!! What a Joke!!

Anubis_2

missapril75 wrote: »

So, if I'm not mistaken, to lose any/all entitlement to HB when rent is £65 must mean take home pay is at least £175 a week.

Can you explain this?

A single person marker (allowance) is £71 for HB/LHA (same allowances as benefits)

Therefore if earnings are below £71 they will get full HB/LHA applicable to their circumstances, anything above £71 the HB/LHA is tapered (60p in the £)

For £65 a week rent, £175 cut off seems a bit too much for a single person. How did you reach the £175 figure before cut off? (As I may be misunderstanding it.)

missapril75

Anubis wrote: »

Therefore if earnings are below £71 they will get full HB/LHA applicable to their circumstances, anything above £71 the HB/LHA is tapered (60p in the £)

I thought it was 65% of the excess over JSA? Has it changed?

Rent @ £65 was a nice convenient figure, meaning that if £65 was 65% then the excess must be £100. There's a £5 disregard so it's really £105 above JSA before a complete cut off.

For simplicity's sake I was just approximating JSA @ £70.

Alternative calculation Net pay £175, less £5 disregard = £170. Less JSA level £70 leaves £100, 65% of which is £65 and pays the rent.


PS....hitting 30 hours work might get the £15 disregard. I think I read that somewhere.