Housing benefit

Cinders:

peachyprice wrote: »

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

Ah I see, thank you for answering my question

jellyhead

It's an odd thing to do, to sign your house over to somebody else. When we were putting my Gran into a home we'd have liked to be able to fund our choice, rather than putting her into a shared bedroom with a stranger, which was the only bed that could be had for free.

Leaving hospital was delayed, and she ended up having her own room somewhere else, but I'd have hated for her to go somewhere that wasn't within easy daily visiting distance, and to share a room which she hated doing in hospital. We were trying to work out a way of every relative paying a bit towards somewhere that she wouldn't have to share a room.

Lance

No wonder the benefit system is being changed as it bankrupts the country. Seems like the taxpayers are paying for OP's parents care as the house has been 'signed away' and OP now also wants more benefits because her earnings, no doubt with tax credits, are not enough for her.

OP, if you put the house in the cats name and your job earnings in you daughters name then you can claim Housing Benefit and Unemployment benefit / Job Seekers Allowence.

Mrs_Boo_Boo

I'm amazed that people don't understand about social services fees. There is less choice with homes if someone is only paid via Social Services. Some homes don't accept the fees and in my experience they tend to have better facilities and cope with people who require skilled and careful handling. There is also a 3rd party top up where families will have to pay the difference!!!!
I would rather see my parents in a suitable home where they were happy than some place which was cheaper and less suitable.

skintandscared_2

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It's allegedly not in the parents' wills that the property is being left to the charity, but in the OP's.

I don't believe a single word the OP has posted.

Absolutely! The OP is clearly skint. So why sign away their only asset to charity?? Totally ridiculous. The things people do these days to avoid paying their own way in life make me sick.

DeeDee74

So your struggling cant pay your rent as your parents gave you the house to stop it beiing used to pay care home fees!! And your gona give the house to charity and claim hb!!! Playing the system or what

BitterAndTwisted

THINKING ABOUT "playing the system" but in actuality they won't be able to. Which is as it should be.

DeeDee74

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

THINKING ABOUT "playing the system" but in actuality they won't be able to. Which is as it should be.

Well hopefully thay wont be able to if the op didnt need to claim hb though the care fees if needed woild be payed and the op would have had a nice free house and the tax payer would have payed thats not right Surley?
Not agaist people claiming what thay neeed as I claim tc , hb myself but I can see why people get slated on certain things.

Dunroamin

pigpen wrote: »

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.

You can't claim LHA/HB for a proerty you previously owned, whatever your relatives managed to do; perhaps the rules changed?

Love the idea of evicting 90 year old parents with dementia - hope your children take note.;)

pigpen

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It's allegedly not in the parents' wills that the property is being left to the charity, but in the OP's.

I don't believe a single word the OP has posted.

I am sceptical too. HB based on income wouldn't take the house into account as it isn't income I'm sure. Also working FT it is unlikely they would be eligible anyway then there are savings taken into account.

And yes you can get HB to pay to a relative so long as it is a proper tenancy agreement etc. My mother was agent for letting my uncles house which was at one point rented to a cousin who got HB. Same uncle then bought out his exwife and rented it to her and she claimed for a short time.