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Help with housing benefit
puppy999
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My housing benefit was stopped last October and I have been fighting to get it reinstated ever since.
I have lived in this house since Feb 2012
My brother as been paying my rent
My electic is on a meter and I have never recevied a bill
and I don't know who the suppler is (sorry about spelling my spell checker won't work) which as been explained to the council.
My proof that I live here is
Statement from my post man, statement from the police (who have visted at least 2 to 3 times a week reguarding a neigbour
dispute)
Bank statements, Hospital appiontments, Doctors letters, telephone bill,friends who have visted and stayed over and a email from housing benefit stating I live here and I am receiving council tax demands.
Dispite all the corrensponce the council still maintain that they need more proof.
They state that I rang them up and said that I do not live at this address ????????????????????
We have appealed but todate STILL waiting
Can anyone else advise me on what I can do next ???
I have lived in this house since Feb 2012
My brother as been paying my rent
My electic is on a meter and I have never recevied a bill
and I don't know who the suppler is (sorry about spelling my spell checker won't work) which as been explained to the council.
My proof that I live here is
Statement from my post man, statement from the police (who have visted at least 2 to 3 times a week reguarding a neigbour
dispute)
Bank statements, Hospital appiontments, Doctors letters, telephone bill,friends who have visted and stayed over and a email from housing benefit stating I live here and I am receiving council tax demands.
Dispite all the corrensponce the council still maintain that they need more proof.
They state that I rang them up and said that I do not live at this address ????????????????????
We have appealed but todate STILL waiting
Can anyone else advise me on what I can do next ???
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Comments
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First we need to know why it was stopped in the first place. So..........
What benefits are you receiving at the moment?
When your HB stopped in October did a benefit stop or change at around about the same time?0 -
Are you related to your landlord?
Do you have a partner elsewhere?These are my own views and you should seek advice from your local Benefits Department or CAB.0 -
Do you have a tenancy agreement. Who do you pay the rent to?0
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What reasons have they given for not thinking you are not there? It can't just be a single telephone call?These are my own views and you should seek advice from your local Benefits Department or CAB.0
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On another of your posts you have stated your landlord has refused to give you a new tenancy agreement since last October - could this be why your HB has stopped?These are my own views and you should seek advice from your local Benefits Department or CAB.0
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This link will assist you in finding your electricity supplier:
http://www.uswitch.com/gas-electricity/guides/who-supplies-my-electricity-and-gas/
Suggest that you also keep the receipts for puchase of top-ups so that you can prove that electricity is being used."If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
Extract from "If" by Rudyard Kipling0 -
pmlindyloo wrote: »First we need to know why it was stopped in the first place. So..........
What benefits are you receiving at the moment?
When your HB stopped in October did a benefit stop or change at around about the same time?
Becase the council claim that I have telephoned them and said I do not live there.......... why would I do that ? ? ? ?
At the moment I am on ESA but previously I was on income
surport up untill june 2013 no that was not the reason for my
benefit being stoped
The council are now taking £15 per week out of my ESA claiming an overpayment was made from the begaining of my tenancy Feb 2012 up untill Oct 2012 when they stopped my HB0 -
Housing_Benefit_Officer wrote: »Are you related to your landlord?
Do you have a partner elsewhere?
No I am not related to my landlord
No I am a widow0 -
wildwestfan wrote: »Do you have a tenancy agreement. Who do you pay the rent to?
Yes I do have a tenancy agreement and I pay
my rent to an agent0 -
Why wont your landlord give you a new tenancy?Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.0
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