Moving back from Spain and need help with benefits

krisskross

Have you thought about where you will live when you return to the UK? This must be your priority to sort out.

If you can save enough to pay a deposit and your rent for a few months then you won't need to claim benefits the moment the plane lands and thus will have time to establish residency here in the UK and avoid the habitual residency test.

We returned from Spain after living there for 5 years but have never needed to claim any means tested benefits so have never been troubled by the HRT.

Just curious but where did you live before you went to Spain?

Where we live now I was told by another returnee that you have to be on the housing register for at least 6 months before you are even considered for accommodation. I am sure the London Boroughs will be problematic.

Morlock

zoominatorone wrote: »

I think I would quite like living in London, but to put it bluntly, it'll never happen in a million years, I couldn't afford to.

Then get a better paid job you skinflint.

zoominatorone

Morlock wrote: »

Then get a better paid job you skinflint.

I live in the real world. I don't move to London because I can't afford to. I suppose I could just turn up there and say I've come back from Spain or something and see what they can do for me--I might get a house like Abu Hamza or something mightn't I?:rotfl:

chesky

Quite frankly, you can forget about being housed by more or less any local authority in London. Today I saw a married couple living with their two young children in one bedsitter (sharing bathroom and kitchen with other multiple tenants). Ten years ago - maybe even five - this would have constituted overcrowding and the couple would have had some kind of priority. Now, our local authority won't even accept them onto the waiting list. And don't think sheltered housing is easier either - being old in itself just ain't going to do it any more.

seven-day-weekend

We also returned from Spain after eight years and didn't need to claim any housing nor any means-tested benefits. If this is the case then you can just return and get on with your lives and not bother about the HRT.

pmlindyloo

There is a very useful fact sheet here about this:

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/documents/en-gb/factsheets/fs25_returning_from_abroad_fcs.pdf?dtrk=true

C_Mababejive

chesky wrote: »

Quite frankly, you can forget about being housed by more or less any local authority in London. Today I saw a married couple living with their two young children in one bedsitter (sharing bathroom and kitchen with other multiple tenants). Ten years ago - maybe even five - this would have constituted overcrowding and the couple would have had some kind of priority. Now, our local authority won't even accept them onto the waiting list. And don't think sheltered housing is easier either - being old in itself just ain't going to do it any more.

Indeed,it is a sad reflection on UK society and British Feudalism that housing is so scarce and expensive and yet we have £36Bn to build a railtrack that isnt needed.

paddedjohn

So the OP is coming home and all of a sudden they realise that he may be too old to claim carers, not too old to care just too old to claim some cash, so they then move the claim to their daughter, good isn't it.

zoominatorone

paddedjohn wrote: »

So the OP is coming home and all of a sudden they realise that he may be too old to claim carers, not too old to care just too old to claim some cash, so they then move the claim to their daughter, good isn't it.

Stunningly good innit?:rotfl: Gimme Gimme Gimme (some benefit money to look after ma wife)

midnight_express

Will the last benefit tourist to leave SPain please turn out the lights