Council claiming rent after bereavement!

p00hsticks

Alderbank said:

james11## said:

Thankyou for your reply. I find this simply staggering to be honest!
I read another thread saying this was not the case, I wonder how this stands up in law?

You seem to be assuming that every death is an elderly person living alone.

In most cases the deceased tenant leaves a partner, and possibly children as well, who want to continue to live in the property.

Automatic termination of the tenancy would be very unfair.

And even if it IS an elderly person living alone, most families appreciate a few weeks to arrange for the deceased's possessions to be sorted and removed.

My mother-in-law had to  vacate a council property when it was realised that she would have to go from hospital permanently into a care home, and, with both my partner and I in full-time work at the time, we were very grateful that we had a few weeks to empty the house, even if it did mean that the rent had to continue to be paid during the notice period.