Housing Benefit as joint tenant, but on PIP/ESA

Cheeky_Monkey

Is your mother in a private rental or social housing?

FutureGirl

She is in private rental.

dippy3103

I think she will merely get the appropriate LHA rate, which would be the single room rate.

pmlindyloo

This is from the local housing allowance guidance manual

Joint tenants within the same household
2.100 In some cases joint tenants may be part of the same household but are
not treated as members of the same family. For example, the customer
may have a non-dependent son or daughter who is a joint tenant but
they maintain a common household.
Example
Lee has a partner and two children aged under 10. He is a joint tenant
with his mother but they form a single household. They pay £150 a
week to rent a three bedroom house and they both claim Housing
Benefit (HB).
Under the size criteria the three bedroom LHA rate applies to both Lee
and his mother because they form a single household.

Do you think this might apply in this case?