Check your LHA Against Your Current Rent

IveSeenTheLight

RHemmings wrote: »

I would be qualified for £491pcm for a two bed. I currently pay less than that for a 4 bed.

Out of interest, where are you renting a 4 bed place for less than £491pcm.

I did a quick search on my area (Grampian Aberdeenshire) on about a 80 mile radius around Aberdeen and the two cheapest 4 bed properties were both on for £800.
Only a total of 16 properties up to £1000
31 properties between £1000 & £1500
33 properties above £1500

It seems that your rental would be a very good price.

Doozergirl

How bizarre. How do they work out those rates? Rents round here are pretty much the same

We'd get £126.92 here but £144.23 in Solihull. My In-laws have a BTL in Solihull which I had research the rents for. It's no different to here!

Family of four, we're allowed two bedrooms.

We could however have this 3 bed house which was about 3 foot under water in July.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-18883754.rsp?pa_n=2&tr_t=rent

Otherwise the amount is very much the going rate for a two bed.

LittleMissAspie

Couple, no dependants.
We pay 630 for a 1-bed house.
We'd get 550.

That's pretty rubbish. A quick Rightmove search tells me there are 3 comparable properties less than 630 - one is much further out of town and one is a retirement flat! The very cheapest is 600. The average is more like 700.

PS: Oh and apparently my postcode isn't valid! Lol.

code-a-holic

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

Out of interest, where are you renting a 4 bed place for less than £491pcm.

I did a quick search on my area (Grampian Aberdeenshire) on about a 80 mile radius around Aberdeen and the two cheapest 4 bed properties were both on for £800.
Only a total of 16 properties up to £1000
31 properties between £1000 & £1500
33 properties above £1500

It seems that your rental would be a very good price.

I pay £420 for a 3 bedroom with a large garden and a plot of land. We are having a loft conversion done ovr next few months to gives us 2 more rooms. We have 3 children and landlord wanted to give us more rooms than see us move to a bigger house. Rent will go up to about £500 a month then. I realise we are very lucky with the price. In a gorgous village with less than 30 houses. we can sit in our garden and no one can hear us or ovr look us and views over the valley. Never want to move! lol. Even if generally the rooms are a bit small compared to the council house we used to rent. We are in West Wales.

HipChick_2

Single mum with two children under 10
Private letting 2 bedroomed flat at £550 pcm (£127)
Under the old system i get a cheque for £48 pcm

going by that site under the new system i should get a cheque for £74.60 or really £64.95 if the cap applies to the scottish properties too.

Does that mean with me being better off they'll just amend my claim or will i carry on getting the £48 until my circumstances change and i make a new claim?

On a side note: i think the age of 10 is unfair - i have a daughter who has had precocious puberty since 4months old and needs a room for hygene reasons yet she doesnt qualify for it due to the age bracket (she's actually 8 in a few hours ) and the council won't budge either we were in a fab 3 bed private let last year but he hiked his rent from £550 to £800 and told us to move out - bummer really lol

Ah well happy days innit

lil_me

We pay £625

We would have be (if claiming) entitled to £112.50 per week on the 'Housing Benefit' as we previously would have qualified for a 4 'room' house and £92.31 per week on the 'LHA' rules as we only qualify for a '2 Bedroom' house on the LHA rules. Not a chance of finding something decent in most parts of Durham for that, I can see rentals either dropping in price or sitting empty a lot. It'd be higher if we lived in the 'Darlington' area of County Durham which I find very confusing as rental are cheaper there. I wonder where they have got their figures from?

Neither of course would cover the rent we pay, we are of course in a 3 bedroom as advised because of both of my sons special needs, but I know that wouldn't be considered if we claimed.

Batty_3

East Riding were one of the Pilot Schemes for LHA and so we dont get HB round these parts anyway

I'd get £352.60 as they say I can only have a 2 bed at £82 a week

I rent a 3 bed at £550.....

When my sons turns 16 we go up to a 3 bed at £391.30

I only moved here at a rent of £550 as rents where I was living have leapt up to around £1000 for a 2 bed and £1500 for a 3 bed...

How anyone will manage those prices I don't know. In a village of 350 council houses only 43 are still owned by the council!

I'm 178th on the list and I've been on the list for 10 years this summer.

Since the floods here the landlords have had to do the houses up, their premiums for Home Insurance went up and they have passed the large rent increases onto the Tennants. I WAS paying £400 a month for a 2 bed, but on renewal or my lease I was told it would be £900 a month take it or leave it....

I left it

He's now sat with an empty house.

When I get made redundant I will have to find the shortfall from my JSA

I'd be interested to know where the 3 bedroomed houses for £391 a month are located in East Riding? I paid £390 10 years ago for a 2 up 2 down

Add to the instructions NO DSS, NO PETS and NO CHILDREN then most people will be well and truly stuffed!

sarah9905

:o:oHi,we are a family of 4 living in a council flat we pay full rent and dont get benefits.....my flat is 2 bed and my daughter is now 11 and my son is 5 and really we need an extra bedroom but the council list is so long that it will take years for us to get a 3 bed property so ive started to look at private rent places but its just so expensive....i was hoping someone would be able to tell me if i find someone that takes housing benefit would the council let me move and help us with the part of the rent that we couldnt afford???? I just feel very stuck with not mant options....thanks.

julie03

find out your LHA rate http://https://lha-direct.voa.gov.uk/Secure/Default.aspx this will give you what the council would pay for private rentals

then put your details into here http://www.turn2us.entitledto.co.uk/entitlementcalculator.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 this will give a rough idea of HB paid, remember this is a rough guide

but please think carefully before giving up a secure tenency, you could find a lovely house only to find the owners want to sell, take a dislike to you, or could be reposessed, private renting is alot more risky as you never know when the owners want the house back, have you tried a swop, there are some websites that do it

clutton_2

""So I'd be able to keep £15/week of that difference; if your rent is less than LHA you can keep £15/week.""

this is now coming to an end... i think it stops in October