Hb And Reletives

daff_duck

Can a person claim HB and CTC if the house is owned by her mother. The mother is apparantly living in council flat in London.

dmg24

Dodgy one. You can, if you can prove that there is a commercial agreement between the two parties. Not easy in such a close relationship.

seven-day-weekend

If you can prove that the property was bought for as a commercial concern (ie.e. a b-t-l mortgage) then it is posdsible.

We rented a flat that we owned to our son and HB paid the rent because we could show them that we had advertised it on the open market previously and that our mortgage allowed us to rent it.

daff_duck

This situation is that mother bought house and moved in with daughter, both dissapear for ages, due to family problems, mother decides to now live in new place, a council flat in England! and daughter moves into the origional house. She is a single parent 18 and not working.

Scarlett1

how did the mother manage to get a council flat if she already had a house ? if she hasnt declared it, it will flag up when the daughter puts benefit claims in.

daff_duck

The mother has always had a flat up in London, and she has been living down here in Wales, in the house she owns for the last 4-5 years. She wanted to move her and daughter back up to London but they had a row and now the daughter is living in the house and mother has stayed in London. The problem we have is that she is 18 with a 1 year old baby. All is quite during the day, she never goes out or even dresses until after 4pm, but come 9.30-10pm all her friends turn up and party all night. My 14 year old has missed school a few times because he is so tired. We have asked them nicely to keep it down but they just make more noise.

Scarlett1

daff_duck wrote: »

The mother has always had a flat up in London, and she has been living down here in Wales, in the house she owns for the last 4-5 years. She wanted to move her and daughter back up to London but they had a row and now the daughter is living in the house and mother has stayed in London. The problem we have is that she is 18 with a 1 year old baby. All is quite during the day, she never goes out or even dresses until after 4pm, but come 9.30-10pm all her friends turn up and party all night. My 14 year old has missed school a few times because he is so tired. We have asked them nicely to keep it down but they just make more noise.

apparently you can claim HB to rent off a relative as long as they have a proper rental agreement, if you have the mothers address you could write to her and explain about the noise or contact environmental health at your local council, although the mother might not want that if she hasnt declared that she had a property when she took the council flat.

daff_duck

We have asked the brother if he could have a word but doasn't seem to have worked, maybe I will go the council route.

Scarlett1

daff_duck wrote: »

We have asked the brother if he could have a word but doasn't seem to have worked, maybe I will go the council route.

you would be better off doing it that way, maybe one letter off them might do the trick

ictquizzer

we had problems on old flat with girl downstairs who didn't work, had parties starting at 3am and often went into the next day. HAd the police out several times, often more than once in more night and they advised to get in touch with the council. I am so happy we did this - they were absolutely brilliant, phoned the day they got the letter and informed us of what action they'd be taking. It was a rented flat (obviously the owner was getting HB to pay the rent as the tenant wasn't working) so they said give them a few days to trace the owner as this was a different department and if it happened again, just call the police immediately and keep records and inform the council again. Basically (in scotland so maybe there are different laws/regulations), the landlords can also be prosecuted if their tenant are flaunting noise regulations and are liable for £1000 fines.

Worked a treat - no more bother and landlord got rid as soon as their lease period was up! Obviously things are different for you in regards of the tenancy arrangements and while i'm not going to advocate running-and-telling, noisy neighbours can ruin lives and really get to you and I suggest you definitely take this arrangement situation further. I reckon it is highly unlikely they have declared this situation and or the sake of your sanity, think you should report it.