Maternity Allowance eligibility

Spoonie_Turtle

LucasWAG said:

I see yes! I think I may be doing the benefit calculator wrong which is skewing my results. Although one other spanner in the works I had is I went to view a flat (Through an estate agents so not LHA) however the flat wasn't suitable sadly for our requirements... As I was leaving however, I did ask about benefits/Universal Credit and the estate agent said that "The landlord does not accept applicants who are on benefits as their insurance doesn't cover it".
I am sure I read a year or so ago they were not allowed to do that any more, but if the landlords are allowed to do this I have to wonder how I can ever get an estate agents-listed property if I am so low priority via LHA.
About the benefits calculator lastly - I have informed that my wife is getting (Or will be getting...) £99.00 per month Maternity Allowance. However later into the calculator it asks for what her monthly wage is.
I say £0.00 (Because her employer is not paying her now...) and it says that this is not a valid amount so I *have* to put her monthly paid allowance in which then comes back at the end that we're not eligible for payments.

I think you might be confusing LHA - Local Housing Allowance = the maximum amount of money they'll pay towards private rent.

A Housing Association is completely different and providing you're in the right sized property, your full rent would be covered however much it costs.