Housing Benefit as a Joint Tenant..

paddedjohn

Robbie64 wrote: »

It depends on the actual rent though. If the rent is £900 per month for a 4 bedroom house with rent split 50/50 (ie £450 per month) it would be a lot more than £9 per week.

Read what I have written. I have said that the maximum they will pay for 2bed would be £103 so even if the rent was £2k per week and he needed to find £1k then the max help anyone would get would be £103 but he will only get £61 so he would need to find £939

Robbie64

Orville: I've just read your first post properly, you said the weekly rent for the property is £140 per week. I just read the post where you mentioned £900 per month. If it is only £140 per week, with a 50/50 split your share of the rent would only be £9 per week.

The moral is: always quote your actual rent when asking a question and not hypothetical amounts! You will always get better advice!

Robbie64

paddedjohn wrote: »

Read what I have written. I have said that the maximum they will pay for 2bed would be £103 so even if the rent was £2k per week and he needed to find £1k then the max help anyone would get would be £103 but he will only get £61 so he would need to find £939

I've just posted (answer is below yours), the OP gave two different amounts for the rent and I only saw the second.

I did read your answer and it was seeing you give £9 as an answer that made me re-read the whole thread...

Orville

Guys sorry maybe i wasn't clear..

The figures i have given are not real ones, just examples as we do not as of yet have a place in mind. Sorry.

I just wanted to know how many ways might affect my LHA if any at all. For example if a house was 900 a month or 600 a month whatever the LHA entitlement will always be £61 a month.?.

So the cheaper the rent the less i pay and more expensive the more i pay.

I just wasn't sure that if i got a cheaper place my LHA might even reduce from £61...


Sorry i know i'm not explaning it too well but i hope you now get the gist..lol

Robbie64

Orville wrote: »

Guys sorry maybe i wasn't clear..

The figures i have given are not real ones, just examples as we do not as of yet have a place in mind. Sorry.

I just wanted to know how many ways might affect my LHA if any at all. For example if a house was 900 a month or 600 a month whatever the LHA entitlement will always be £61 a month.?.

So the cheaper the rent the less i pay and more expensive the more i pay.

I just wasn't sure that if i got a cheaper place my LHA might even reduce from £61...


Sorry i know i'm not explaning it too well but i hope you now get the gist..lol

I know what you mean! Yup, the higher the rent over £103 per week the more the difference you will have to make up.

Orville

May i ask another question, slightly off topic but you guys may know.

Now the woman i may move in with currently lives on her own and has a 50 - 50 share of her daughter with her ex partner. He however gets the cb, tax credits etc. I won't go into why he gets it but this is how it is (for now).

Now i did a run through for her without a child and according to the site she could get a small amount of HB on a 2 bed. She currently claims nothing. Now i did it on a 2 bed because of the daughter staying exactly half the time with her. Can she actually claim anything as she does not get the CB etc, i am thinking she might be able to if she can produce the court papers saying she has a 50% share of the child.

Robbie64

Orville wrote: »

May i ask another question, slightly off topic but you guys may know.

Now the woman i may move in with currently lives on her own and has a 50 - 50 share of her daughter with her ex partner. He however gets the cb, tax credits etc. I won't go into why he gets it but this is how it is (for now).

Now i did a run through for her without a child and according to the site she could get a small amount of HB on a 2 bed. She currently claims nothing. Now i did it on a 2 bed because of the daughter staying exactly half the time with her. Can she actually claim anything as she does not get the CB etc, i am thinking she might be able to if she can produce the court papers saying she has a 50% share of the child.

She can't as the child won't be classed as a dependent for benefit purposes. For means tested benefits the overriding factor is who gets the benefits, especially the Child Benefit.

Caz3121

Orville wrote: »

May i ask another question, slightly off topic but you guys may know.

Now the woman i may move in with currently lives on her own and has a 50 - 50 share of her daughter with her ex partner. He however gets the cb, tax credits etc. I won't go into why he gets it but this is how it is (for now).

Now i did a run through for her without a child and according to the site she could get a small amount of HB on a 2 bed. She currently claims nothing. Now i did it on a 2 bed because of the daughter staying exactly half the time with her. Can she actually claim anything as she does not get the CB etc, i am thinking she might be able to if she can produce the court papers saying she has a 50% share of the child.

She will be classed as a single person for HB and, as such, will only qualify for the shared accommodation rate to be used in the HB calculations

Orville

Oh that's a chocker as she has the child overnight for 50% of the time. I thought she might be at least be able to claim the 2 bedroom rate (even if the amount received was lower because of the lack of benefits).

pmlindyloo

Caz3121 wrote: »

She will be classed as a single person for HB and, as such, will only qualify for the shared accommodation rate to be used in the HB calculations

This is true only if the OP's friend is under 35. Over 35 and she will be entitled to the one bed rate.


The alternative is to get the CB and child tax credits transferred to her name (if that is a possibility)

Or could the child share with your child or could you make some alternative arrangements when she stays. Not ideal I know.