Housing Benefit for single person on minimum wage?

[Goldenlab]

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help with this one, I've been trying to put the figures through the direct gov benefit calculator but don't have enough pieces of information to get an answer. I'm helping a friend (in her late twenties) to find somewhere to live. She's homeless at the moment and has just started a full time job on minimum wage (thus 35 hours a week @ £6.50 an hour). To rent a room as a lodger in this area is £100 a week, minimum (south east). Could anyone advise on whether she could claim any housing benefit towards the rent? I've managed to find out that if she were unemployed she could claim £65 HB, but not whether she could claim anything now she has started working.

It depends on the LHA rate where she lives. Her local council website should have a calculator to help you.

Your friend will gross £227.50 a week so won't qualify for any help.

I very much doubt it.

www.entitledto.co.uk/ will tell you exactly what she is entitled to though.

Thank you all. Suspected it would be a no.

All circumstances are different, my friend gets full hb her dh earns 22k.

Seems if your single, no kids and work full time.. Your entitled to nothing... Grates me cause things can be just a tough for people xx