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id RAS

RAS wrote: »

She needs to apply for Discretionary Housing Benefoit as the biggest priority. Have you done that yet?

Then try to find the £15 towards the shortfall.

if you read my comp0lete original post you will we seen we tried that and my post before that we are taking the shortfall form her food budget as stated

silvercar

RAS wrote: »

She needs to apply for Discretionary Housing Benefoit as the biggest priority. Have you done that yet?

Then try to find the £15 towards the shortfall.

I agree. Has she got family that would be able and prepared to help her out with the shortfall?

lighting_up_the_chalice

nitelite2010 wrote: »

i think ill write t them but im not to sure what to put any one got any ideas? she is going to take £15.00 a week from her food budget thats all she can do for now and she is going to make an offer to them of £6.00 amonth of the arrears will the £6.00 be enough as she is only on esa?

but i want to make a strong point in a letter them saying in a professional yet straight to the pint way that the pressure they have put on her is not right as they know what her mental state is and get my point across that they will now be taking money from her food budget to pay the £15.00 per week

any templates of written help for the letter would be appreciated

This isn't anything to do with the landlord. The rent charged remains completely unchanged. The issue is with her HB, the rules for which are determined by central government.

However, perhaps you could explain her extra expenses when compared to someone on JSA?

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it was to ask the land lord of they can bear with her with the extra £15 a week until she was offered A 1 bedroom flat that was all .

and what mikes you think she gets more on esa than someone does on jsa? she gets £71.00 per week as does someone on jsa who is over the age of 25 and her expenses she pays tv licence, water, electric, gas, council tax she has to travel 4 miles twice a week to go to Psychotherapy that costs her her £12.00 a week on its own


i was not asking for a way to get out of paying it for her just some help or advice of what i might be able to do to ease the pressure of the 3 phone callas a day and the letters every other day i feel this is become a little unconformable now i was seeking help and advice that's all but like i said we will take this out of her food budget and pay it she will have to cut back on a few things as she is also a diabetic and the cost of food these days can be eye opening

thanks everyone for the positive responses its very much appreciated

olly300

nitelite2010 please remove the personal details you posted about the person as posts on this forum can be found from Google.

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no personal details there

danielanthony

Can she not house share? Ive done this even though its not great it was all I could afford and I was working full time.

olly300

danielanthony wrote: »

Can she not house share? Ive done this even though its not great it was all I could afford and I was working full time.

Nope.

Someone with severe mental health issues like that cannot house share.

They need to live on their own, with family or in a home.

Even when they live with family they wear the family members they live with down.

I know a few people who have lived with their seriously mentally ill child as an adult. They ended up being seriously ill themselves and only recovered when that child moved out.

lighting_up_the_chalice

nitelite2010 wrote: »

it was to ask the land lord of they can bear with her with the extra £15 a week until she was offered A 1 bedroom flat that was all .

and what mikes you think she gets more on esa than someone does on jsa? she gets £71.00 per week as does someone on jsa who is over the age of 25 and her expenses she pays tv licence, water, electric, gas, council tax she has to travel 4 miles twice a week to go to Psychotherapy that costs her her £12.00 a week on its own


i was not asking for a way to get out of paying it for her just some help or advice of what i might be able to do to ease the pressure of the 3 phone callas a day and the letters every other day i feel this is become a little unconformable now i was seeking help and advice that's all but like i said we will take this out of her food budget and pay it she will have to cut back on a few things as she is also a diabetic and the cost of food these days can be eye opening

thanks everyone for the positive responses its very much appreciated

She's been "trying" to move for over a year already, a year in which many due to be effected by the bedroom tax decided to ignore it. As a result, demand on smaller places has only increased since the introduction/impact of the BT. How much longer do you think her LL should allow her to fall further and further into debt?

red_devil

nitelite2010 wrote: »

hi everyone im looking for some advice please if possible.

my sister friend is currently in 2 bed flat she has been trying to move out for over a year well before the bedroom tax came into play. she has 3 different mental health problems and is in a bad way with them at the moment.

as is a lot of people she is effect by the bedroom tax she get ESA and they want £15.00 a week off her i have tried to work this out to see how she can pay this but she really cant afford it. we have written to her landlord (social landlord housing ) and they are not interested one bit with her current situation she is under psychiatric care (has a cpn and support worker ) but not in psychiatric unit and the landlord seem to be ignoring this and just want the £15.00 a week.

they are aware of her mental health problems and how bad they are as she tried to take her life last year while in her flat so they know how unstable she can be at times. but the pressure r of this bedroom tax is severely effecting her. she is not entitled to the DHP and as she is classed as a vulnerable tenant is ther anything we can do or say to her landlord to ease they pressure off her until she can get into a 1 bed flat.

she is registered with local council and also 12 other hosing assoations but still cant get a move the private sectors rents are too high her housing benefit will not cover this and i dont knwo what else i can to help her

any advice of information would be very much appreciated

thank you

of course they dont care they see you as cash cows. They dont care about individual people.