do partners getting PIP get help with paying the rent?

ladaowner55

I work 38 hours a week and earn £4300 no other incomes or savings.  I have a new girlfriend who is registered deaf and claims roughly £400 a month in ESA and £500 in PIP payments and currently lives at home with her father.  The plan is to one day move into together but that is looking impossible given the current cost of living crisis.

Question 
Would she be due any house benefits and what is a rough figure on a 1 bedroom private rental.  For what it is worth we both live in (Removed by Forum Team). 

Guessing she might lose the ESA (due to my wages) but keep the PIP.  Maybe I would be entitled to carers allowance but they is another question for another day.

I understand it might be difficult to give exact figures with the limited data that I have supplied but really anything remotely close would do.

Rubyroobs

Assuming you earn £4300 a month then you would likely not be eligible for any means tested benefits like  Universal credit ( an element of which covers help with rent ) when you move in together. If your girlfriends ESA is contributions based then she would be able to continue to claim that if you moved in together as that is not means tested. the PIP would also not be affected. You would not be eligible for carers allowance if you earn more than £132 a week or more. 

Spoonie_Turtle

Firstly you should remove your postcode from your post, for safety.

Secondly, any help with the rent would be means-tested and you would have to claim as a couple.  With your high wage it is almost certain there would be no entitlement, but you can do a benefits check to confirm, putting in your joint details as if you were already living together:
https://benefits-calculator.turn2us.org.uk/
https://www.entitledto.co.uk/

Carers Allowance is only claimable if your wage after tax/NI/allowable expenses is below £132 per week.

Her ESA will depend on whether any of it is contribution-based; any income-based entitlement would likely be lost but if any of it is contribution-based then that would remain, unaffected by your wage.  But again the benefit calculators will probably help there.

ladaowner55

So the short answer is if she moves with me then she can continue to get PIP and ESA (if not contribution based) and no rent help.

Out of interest I made that postcode up, I simple changed the 2 letters.

Thanks peoples.

poppy12345

ladaowner55 said:

So the short answer is if she moves with me then she can continue to get ESA (if not contribution based) and no rent help.

If part of her ESA is contributions based then this can continue. If all of it is Income Relate then this would end if you lived together. If she doesn't know what her ESA claim is made up of then she can ring ESA to ask. Her PIP will not be affected.