Housing benefit living in spare room at dad's

PersianCatLady

Kimmybbz89 wrote: »

Hi all I'm looking for some advice after a 11 year relationship living away from my family and friends it's ended and now I'm forced to live back around where I grew up and where all my family and friends are my dad is putting me up while I'm registered as homeless and searching for private landlords and are awaiting on hearing about supported housing but asking for £50 a week rent which is reasonable but I'm wondering if I'd be entitled to housing benefit to pay for it ? I get esa thanks very much in advance

Straight from the Government's own website:
"....you won’t get Housing Benefit if you live in the home of a close relative..."

https://www.gov.uk/housing-benefit/eligibility

PersianCatLady

Forgot to add, rather than actual rent, your Dad is charging you £50 a week for board.

Seeing as you get at least £73.10 a week in ESA, why don't you pay your Dad his £50 a week out of that and consider yourself fortunate as you will still have £23.10 left over.

Once you get your own place, you will be lucky if you have anything left over from your ESA after paying all of your bills.

PersianCatLady

Kimmybbz89 wrote: »

My dad has a box room but not big enough for a bed so currently just has my stuff in it ( well what I have ) thankyou for your sensitivity as you can imagine it's not easy and I've come here for a none judgmental ear just to ask my question but I think I understand better my benefits are just gonna need to stretch a bit further to cover the cost of staying here

If you can't cope with paying your Dad £50 a week out of your ESA for bed and board then there is no way that you will manage to pay all of the bills for a place of your own and buy food out of the same amount of money.

Do some research and start being more realistic.