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housing benefit in chesunt (broxbourne)

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  • Caz3121
    Caz3121 Posts: 15,876 Forumite
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    stranger12 wrote: »
    thanks thus if she gets the £900 pcm one she will have to pay the extra but the council will still pay her for the one bedroom rate ?

    how will she pay the difference if she is not working. If she is on JSA, her income will be £71 per week which needs to cover utilities and food....how could she spare £66 per week for rent topup?
  • barbarawright
    barbarawright Posts: 1,846 Forumite
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    stranger12 wrote: »
    53 :D

    thanks

    53 is old now? :eek:
  • sablelady
    sablelady Posts: 51 Forumite
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    Could you consider renting 1 bedroom and the person staying overnight could sleep on a sofa bed?
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    stranger12 wrote: »
    yes but she has some health issues.
    she has moved from another part of the country and currently leaving with me
    If she has made herself intentionally homeless she is unlikely to get state funding.
  • bodmil
    bodmil Posts: 931 Forumite
    What about a sofa bed or an air bed for occasional visitors?
  • Dunroamin
    Dunroamin Posts: 16,908 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    If she has made herself intentionally homeless she is unlikely to get state funding.

    Intentionally homeless affects someone's ability to receive social housing, it doesn't affect their ability to claim LHA.
  • Nada666
    Nada666 Posts: 5,004 Forumite
    Note to bedroom tax whingers: observe the 32% bedroom tax here for a private poperty compared to the 14% one you all are moaning about - and that's 32% of a commercial rent, not a social rent.
  • stranger12
    stranger12 Posts: 558 Forumite
    lots of posts all useful apart from 1 or 2

    firstly she is not homeless or anything but need help with renting home.
    as some other poster said finding £63 a week is not easy thus she may not go with that and something that she can afford

    thanks for all replies
  • stranger12
    stranger12 Posts: 558 Forumite
    Nada666 wrote: »
    Note to bedroom tax whingers: observe the 32% bedroom tax here for a private poperty compared to the 14% one you all are moaning about - and that's 32% of a commercial rent, not a social rent.



    sorry can you eloborate on this please?
  • Nada666
    Nada666 Posts: 5,004 Forumite
    stranger12 wrote: »
    sorry can you eloborate on this please?

    605/890 = 0.68

    The LHA only covers 68% of her rent. That leaves a spare bedroom tax of 32%. With social housing the tax would be only 14%.
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