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maggieann2luke

We are not trying to "grab money for nothing", only trying to find out what we could be entitled to. Moving houses is not an option as there are none available in the area. Housing association tenants are not allowed lodgers or to work from home. Our rent is £100 per week,as is my daughters,c.tax £174.00 a month, a price we pay in a tourist hotspot.

bloolagoon

maggieann2luke wrote: »

We are not trying to "grab money for nothing", only trying to find out what we could be entitled to. Moving houses is not an option as there are none available in the area. Housing association tenants are not allowed lodgers or to work from home. Our rent is £100 per week,as is my daughters,c.tax £174.00 a month, a price we pay in a tourist hotspot.

So your daughter will have over £400 a week after rent and council tax. You don't, she needs to stop relying on you.

Poppie68

If your daughter is claiming all her TC entitlements after paying rent and council tax they are left with approx £1400 a month. Have they got alot of debt?

Dunroamin

Poppie68 wrote: »

If your daughter is claiming all her TC entitlements after paying rent and council tax they are left with approx £1400 a month. Have they got alot of debt?

And without running a car or having any transport costs!

vassa

Those outgoings are small, especially considering her other half works. I lived in a grotty 1 bed flat and was paying £500 per month, before council tax. £575 per month outgoings INCLUDING council tax is really cheap.

After other half's wages have paid for the rent, on no benefits at all they still have the best part of 7 tonne left? 3 kids or not, this is plenty to live on. Even at £100 a month utilities which is a lot, they've got maybe £600 left for food, nappies and kids clothes. Sorry, but i have zero sympathy for her, if she's struggling she needs a reality check and nothing more.

Also as an aside, if you live in a village maybe she needs to look further afield. There will be housing available outside your village (which by the very nature of the word i'm presuming is small.) This would help her with work too.

Poppie68

£174 a month CT..thats nearly £2000 per year on a 3 bedroom council house!

vassa

Poppie68 wrote: »

£174 a month CT..thats nearly £2000 per year on a 3 bedroom council house!

Well that's another thing that can be done to ease their suffering - checking whether they're in the right council tax band and possibly getting a rebate if they're not. They can't just decide you're in a holiday hotspot so the council tax is more expensive. Well, i didn't think so anyway (could be wrong), i thought it was to do with size of property.

princessdon

vassa wrote: »

Those outgoings are small, especially considering her other half works. I lived in a grotty 1 bed flat and was paying £500 per month, before council tax. £575 per month outgoings INCLUDING council tax is really cheap.

After other half's wages have paid for the rent, on no benefits at all they still have the best part of 7 tonne left? 3 kids or not, this is plenty to live on. Even at £100 a month utilities which is a lot, they've got maybe £600 left for food, nappies and kids clothes. Sorry, but i have zero sympathy for her, if she's struggling she needs a reality check and nothing more.

Also as an aside, if you live in a village maybe she needs to look further afield. There will be housing available outside your village (which by the very nature of the word i'm presuming is small.) This would help her with work too.

Then add the £852 in benefits (that OP says she claims, only the amount is disputed). The only way she is getting less is if she was overpaid and even then it's a small amount, so won't be too far away. Children give a lot of benefits to parents (well some as others like myself get nothing). That's what your taxes pay for whilst you struggled.

vassa

princessdon wrote: »

Then add the £852 in benefits (that OP says she claims, only the amount is disputed). The only way she is getting less is if she was overpaid and even then it's a small amount, so won't be too far away. Children give a lot of benefits to parents (well some as others like myself get nothing). That's what your taxes pay for whilst you struggled.

That's the thing though, i didn't struggle, i just lived to my means, but then i've never been a materialistic person and i don't have a TV or new clothes or anything.

Something OP's daughter needs to get her head round, because as far as i can see she's choosing to struggle, it's not something that's forced on her.

fabforty

maggieann2luke wrote: »

We are not trying to "grab money for nothing", only trying to find out what we could be entitled to. Moving houses is not an option as there are none available in the area. Housing association tenants are not allowed lodgers or to work from home. Our rent is £100 per week,as is my daughters,c.tax £174.00 a month, a price we pay in a tourist hotspot.

Yes they are. Social Housing tenants are allowed to take lodgers, with permission provided they do not cause the home to become statutorily overcrowded. It is one of the popular solutions for people facing the 'bedroom tax'.
Working from home is also permitted, e.g. Avon, Ebay, office based work etc, although turning the house into a business (B&B, selling food, that sort of thing) is not allowed.