Housing benefit

Annisele

I don't think the parents are able to claim housing benefit for a house they used to own.

Even if they could, suddenly charging rent after many years of zero rent screams contrived tenancy - and so no HB for the parents.

OP - do your parents realise the hole they've put you in?

FBaby

You do want your cake and eat it.

You admit that the purpose of the transfer to your name was to avoid paying care fees later. This means that whereas otherwise, they would have had to sell the property and pay for their own care, now you will have a property AND tax payers will pay for their care.

Now you think you should be entitled to a mortgage free property when your parents pass away (which you most likely wouldn't have been able to get otherwise) AND the tax payers to pay for your housing bills.

You had a chance to say no to your parents, you didn't, you now have to accept the decision and that you will have to wait to appreciate the gain.

jetplane

It is not their home it is your home. If you can not manage to pay your rent you have a choice to charge them rent, evict them and rent to someone else or sell it.

This has got to be a wind up you can not expect to claim housing benefit to pay your rent while someone lives rent free in a property that you own, particularly when the reason you own it is to avoid care home fees :whistle:

Dunroamin

Annisele wrote: »

I don't think the parents are able to claim housing benefit for a house they used to own.

Even if they could, suddenly charging rent after many years of zero rent screams contrived tenancy - and so no HB for the parents.

OP - do your parents realise the hole they've put you in?

It isn't the parent who want to claim HB, it's the OP.

anmarj

Dunroamin wrote: »

It isn't the parent who want to claim HB, it's the OP.

Pigpen posted in post no 8 suggested that the parents then claim HB, once the daughter started charging them

pigpen

anmarj wrote: »

Pigpen posted in post no 8 suggested that the parents then claim HB, once the daughter started charging them

Others suggested it too, I don't see why they wouldn't get it with a proper tenancy agreement.. My uncle rented a house he had sold a few years previously and before that he had rented it to his exwife after buying her out.. and if they can't get the hb evict them and install someone who will pay the rent as suggested above.

Cinders:

Sorry completely off topic, but as this was op's first post, shouldn't it have had the newbie poster sign by the post? Have they stopped doing that now?

peachyprice

If you look at the date OP joined in May 2012, so not a newbie. Some people remove all their posts as they go, especially if they don't get the replies they expected

vonnykinsx

Just to point out..my parents, both in their early 90s and both suffering with dementia, contacted a solicitor who's advice it was to put their property into my name.
Also I will not benefit from the property on their death as it has been left in my will to a charity that I have supported for years.
I do not want my cake and I def don't want to eat it
And I do not want to bother my parents with all this as they would not understand.

notanewuser

vonnykinsx wrote: »

Just to point out..my parents, both in their early 90s and both suffering with dementia, contacted a solicitor who's advice it was to put their property into my name.
Also I will not benefit from the property on their death as it has been left in my will to a charity that I have supported for years.
I do not want my cake and I def don't want to eat it
And I do not want to bother my parents with all this as they would not understand.

Unless you're planning to die at the same time as your parents, you will.