Housing Benefit are requesting my bank statements on behalf of my flatmates benefit claim

Robbie64

A letter from yourself confirming payments were handed you and you paid the money to the landlord should be enough (providing dates for each transaction would be helpful though). The council are out of order and possibly in breach of the law by asking you to provide bank statements.

sheramber

they are not asking for banks statements They are asking for proof of payment. The OP  considers that   to  be sight of the OP's bank statements as that is how it was paid.
They are indirectly requesting my bank statements as they are asking him for proof of payment to our landlord. As this went via me and my bank, they want to see the proof of this happening! 

MovingForwards

Can you do a search of transactions and produce a transaction statement showing the FM payments to you, then do another one of you paying the LL?

Not sure if all banks do it, but it's what I did to show my payments to the letting agent when applying for my mortgage. The transaction statement showed my name and account number etc. 

Saves redacting lots of statements, if you are sending them.