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Applying for council housing (household income)
CBL123
Posts: 22 Forumite
When the council ask what your ‘household income’ is, how is this defined?
Is it just your own income, or that of the people you live with? (I.e Parents)
Is it just your own income, or that of the people you live with? (I.e Parents)
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Is the application just for you or for all of you?All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.
Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.0 -
Just for me.0
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I would assume it means everyone who will be living in the household.
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For your household. So if just you, no relatives or lodgers even if not on tenancy then just you.
If you (only name on tenancy) but also two children living with you who both work, write down all0 -
It is the income of the household that you are applying for housing for.
If your parents will be moving in with you, then their income is counted.
If they won't, then it won't.0 -
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