Dealing with a private rent increase on Univeral Credit

Louk

I've agreed a rent increase with my private landlord. I've been their tenant for 13 years with no rent increase and currently pay well under the lha. They have had the property up for sale but have agreed to remove it from the market if I can pay the full lha (still well below market value). 

How/when do I go about this in term of informing Universal Credit? I usually get paid my UC around the 23rd (assessment period is 16th-17th) and rent goes out on the 28th.

My understanding is I wouldn't get the increase in advance of the first increased payment which I wouldn't be able to afford so could I request an advanced payment? Or have I got this wrong? 

I've posted on other forums and still don't fully understand.

rosewalk

On what date is the rent going to increase? It is the rent at the end of the Assessment Period that counts. If for example your current AP runs from 17th September to the 16th October and your rent was to increase on 14th October as long as you report this on your UC account straight away as a rent increase then you would get the higher amount for the whole of that Assessment Period. To report the rent increase you would need to go into housing details and update these. You cannot report an increase in rent in advance so you should report on the day on which your rent increases.

Louk

rosewalk said:

On what date is the rent going to increase? It is the rent at the end of the Assessment Period that counts. If for example your current AP runs from 17th September to the 16th October and your rent was to increase on 14th October as long as you report this on your UC account straight away as a rent increase then you would get the higher amount for the whole of that Assessment Period. To report the rent increase you would need to go into housing details and update these. You cannot report an increase in rent in advance so you should report on the day on which your rent increases.

@rosewalk I pay on the 28th of each month so would that be considered the date of increase or the date that my landlord notifies me? 

With my UC payment being the 23rd I usually reserve most of that to pay my rent on the 28th. 

rosewalk

It isn't the day that you pay the rent that is important it is the date on which your landlord increased your rent from. If has increased this from 28th September then this is within this Assessment Period so the Housing Element would be based on the increased rent.