Changing area - effect on UC claim

yorkshire_lad_91

Hi, Thanks for any help anyone can give.

As of tomorrow I shall be unemployed and available for work. I plan to stay in my current flat in Sheffield until my tenancy ends on 26 July, after which, if I haven't found work, I will have to move back home with my father in another area.

If I start a claim for Universal Credit here, so I have enough to live off until I find a fulltime job, (I won't need HB as the rent is paid up on my flat and my father won't charge me rent), how will moving areas affect my claim? Will I have to make a new claim once I've moved, or will they just carry it on?

Sorry to seem dim, but I've never claimed any benefits before and don't know how the system works.

sammyjammy

I don't believe new claimants are making a claim to Universal Credit in Sheffield currently so you would claim JSA and then have to make a new claim to either UC or JSA wherever you moved to.

yorkshire_lad_91

Thank you. So if I claim JSA in Sheffield and I don't find work before I leave there, will they still pay me (in arrears?) for the week I was there?

rogerblack

yorkshire_lad_91 wrote: »

Thank you. So if I claim JSA in Sheffield and I don't find work before I leave there, will they still pay me (in arrears?) for the week I was there?

The first three days are not payable, in any event.

BigAunty

yorkshire_lad_91 wrote: »

I won't need HB as the rent is paid up on my flat and my father won't charge me rent.

AFAIK, it doesn't matter that you've paid the rent in advance yourself from employment income, I believe you can still get HB so if you are entitled, do claim. That money will help you out until you get a job.

A tenant can't claim HB if they live in the same property as a close relative who is their landlord. If you move back to your dad's house, you can't claim HB even if he did charge you rent.

sammyjammy

I believe its seven waiting days now. You should still make the claim in Sheffield first as you won't have to wait another seven when you move.