Do I have this right

margaretclare

BigAunty wrote: »

The OP is dependent on housing benefit - if he was fully self supporting like you and your husband with your own place, he could live in a property as large as he likes. He's got the nark because he doesn't get to live in a property larger than his needs while its funded by the taxpayer.

But HB will only give a couple a 1 bedroom HB rate, not 2, so he's annoyed that the taxpayers aren't prepared to cough up extra so they can live in a larger place. He thinks this is outrageous because if two friends or siblings, lived together, for example, they'd have a room each so could afford a 2 bedroom property on benefits.

If the OP wants a bigger place without paying a top-up towards the rent from his benefits, he's going to have to move to a property where the rent is much cheaper than the Local Housing Allowance rates or pay his own rent from employment income.

Thank you very much for explaining the problem so clearly. Much appreciated.

'Paying his own rent from employment income'. Isn't that what most people do, or have I stumbled into a Rip Van Winkle kind of world again? It's not surprising if I have - it happens fairly frequently.