Help... please :0)

Scared1980

I was hoping that someone could give me some advice.

I am currently living with my partner in a jointly owned one bedroom house, we have two daughters (7months and 3years).

Unfortunately my partner and I have decided to split up.

The house will have to be sold as neither of us could take on the mortgage, therefore I will be looking to rent privately with my daughters.

I am unclear on how this would work... would I need to wait until the house is sold before I could move to private rented accommodation and apply for help?

I work part-time (28 hrs) and earn approx £19,000 per annum, both girls are in childcare costing approx £300 per week.

I have been on to the entitledto website and from what that shows I would get a reasonable amount of help... how accurate is this?

I am so confused and absolutely petrified.

Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance

L

Scarlett1

theres nothing stopping you moving straight into private renting, but if your name is on the mortgage you might not get any help with the rent until after the house is sold and and they see how much equity you gained out of it. You would only need to rent a 2 bedroomed house, but with your salary I doubt you would get much housing benefit at all, and you wouldnt get any council tax credit, but do make sure that you inform tax credits when you become single and you could always claim childcare costs through claiming working tax credits