should she declare

raq

okay, sister-in-law in rented accomodation , part paid by council. Her and hubby working. Strapped for cash at the moment and have a friend living there and paying them a weekly figure for board and lodge. She is concerned whether she should declare this to the council. Private landlord is aware but not bothered as long as he;s getting his monthly money.

thanks for your time

Timmne

Yes of course!

Why should she be subsidised because she's a bit strapped?

Actually, I'm a bit short this week so I think I'll go and claim some housing benefit and lie on the application.

msmicawber

I assume the part-payment by the Council is Housing Benefit, raq? If so, any rent paid to them by the lodger would be considered as extra income, so they ought to declare it. If they don't they run the risk of being done for benefit fraud. Could the lodger pay direct to the landlord and cut them out of the loop?

raq

msmicawber wrote: »

I assume the part-payment by the Council is Housing Benefit, raq? If so, any rent paid to them by the lodger would be considered as extra income, so they ought to declare it. If they don't they run the risk of being done for benefit fraud. Could the lodger pay direct to the landlord and cut them out of the loop?

thanks for this info. unfortunately they always seem to work the INCORRECT way and don't seem overally bothered as long as they get the extra money. Annoying. I will tell them though what they could be faced with that is ofcourse if they do declare it.

msmicawber

I think that you ought to remind them as well that if they don't, they may be found out and the situation would be a lot worse.

raq

msmicawber wrote: »

I think that you ought to remind them as well that if they don't, they may be found out and the situation would be a lot worse.

i certainly will. they lived together for years ( about 9 in total ) and never did anything about it. apparantely nothing was never declared

Fran

If they are receiving Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit a non dependant deduction will be taken from those amounts. The amount depends on the income of the non dependant and goes up in a sliding scale. If they are only receiving a small amount of HBen/CTax Ben at the moment and 3rd person has good income it will probably cancel out their payments.

There will already have been an overpayment back to the time the person moved in.

However what do you mean by "they lived together for years...... and nothing was ever declared"?

raq

Fran wrote: »

If they are receiving Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit a non dependant deduction will be taken from those amounts. The amount depends on the income of the non dependant and goes up in a sliding scale. If they are only receiving a small amount of HBen/CTax Ben at the moment and 3rd person has good income it will probably cancel out their payments.

There will already have been an overpayment back to the time the person moved in.

However what do you mean by "they lived together for years...... and nothing was ever declared"?

She claimed she was living on her own, working part time and boyfriend working fully time but was actually listed as living at his mum's for all that time.

step son is also working full time

Smashing

I sincerely hope she is reported, by you or someone else.
It's people like this that make all those genuinely on benefits look bad.

raq

Smashing wrote: »

I sincerely hope she is reported, by you or someone else.
It's people like this that make all those genuinely on benefits look bad.

100 % correct all the way.

She think's she's invisable though. What's the saying,, what goes round comes around.