Don't Understand Advance Payment in Universal Credit

Newcad

Do the old council have your bank details to pay the HB run-on into your bank? (I'm guessing not if you payments were direct to landlord).

If they don't have your bank details then they will need to send you a cheque, so do they have your new address?

If they don't then you will need to ring them and give them one or the other so that they can pay you the run-on.

RealGem

Newcad said:

Do the old council have your bank details to pay the HB run-on into your bank? (I'm guessing not if you payments were direct to landlord).

If they don't have your bank details then they will need to send you a cheque, so do they have your new address?

If they don't then you will need to ring them and give them one or the other so that they can pay you the run-on.

Thanks but you said in a previous quote:
As long as you were entitled to HB (for your old place) on the date that you claimed UC that HB will also run on for 2 weeks, and will be paid to you.

And I claimed UC on Monday 7th, August, the day I moved out of my old address, so technically if what you said above is true, then I won't be entitled to Housing Benefit. 

One person from the Citizens Advice that I spoke to on the phone did tell me to claim before I moved house under the old address, but with all the other things they told me, I had forgotten why they said I needed to do that. And then I forgot because the people helping me move house let me down at the last minute so I had to find other people fast!

I am now wondering if that was the reason. 

I will call them and ask them. 

Thanks

Newcad

RealGem said:

And I claimed UC on Monday 7th, August, the day I moved out of my old address, so technically if what you said above is true, then I won't be entitled to Housing Benefit.

That should be fine, you were/are still entitled.

You are not supposed to claim UC Housing Element unless/until you are living in the property that you are going to be claiming UC-HE for, which of course means that you have moved out of the property that you were claiming HB for.

But that doesn't matter, particularly if you claim UC on the same day you move out,  because when you move out of a rental property your entitlement to HB doesn't end straightaway.
HB is paid Monday to Sunday (a new HB claim doesn't start paying until the Monday after it is was applied for) so HB normally ends on the Sunday after you move out.
(It usually balances, you miss a few days HB at the start and gain a few at the end. )

So as you moved out on Monday you still had an HB entitlement until the next Sunday, so you had that HB entitlement on the day that you claimed UC.
(The entitlement then ended because you had claimed UC and you can't have both at the same time - except for the run-on which is a special rule).

But yes, give your old council a ring to confirm the HB run on and how it should be paid to you.