Rent going down

hmc

Hi, if my rent goes down :T:T in a private rent does my housing benefit go down?
I only ask as I only get some of it paid anyway and have a massive top up to find
Thankyou

Heycock

No. You continue to get whatever the appropriate LHA is for your bedroom needs. If your rent is less you're laughing. If, like most of us, it's more, you top it up.

hmc

Thankyou it's not going down to less than the Lha ,mores the pity, lol but I'm moving a few doors down and it's less than her so I will have slightly less top up to pay unless they knock some off as I do work part time

poppasmurf_bewdley

Heycock wrote: »

No. You continue to get whatever the appropriate LHA is for your bedroom needs. If your rent is less you're laughing. If, like most of us, it's more, you top it up.

I thought that being allowed to keep any profit from paying less rent than the Housing Allowance limit had been stopped last year, and that if your rent was less than the HA, you only received the rent, not the full HA.

But I stand to be corrected.

Heycock

Poppasmurf...you're probably right. It's not an issue round here because most people on LHA are topping up anyway.
Private rental entry rates are now (coincidentally, of course) either equal or more than the relevant LHA rates. For example, the 2 bed LHA rate here is £450. Which is around what you'd pay for the most modest 2 bed house or flat. We have a huge number of big Victorian mansion conversions here as well with a preponderance of 1 bedroom flats whose rents conveniently start mostly from £375 and upwards, £375 being the 1 bed rate.

dodger1

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

I thought that being allowed to keep any profit from paying less rent than the Housing Allowance limit had been stopped last year, and that if your rent was less than the HA, you only received the rent, not the full HA.

But I stand to be corrected.

You are correct.