Anyone who recieves housing benefit and is working?

[colditz]

I could do with a little advice and reassurance.

My house is a HA house, but I am sick of living here and want to move elsewhere. Neither the council nor the housing assoc. are particularly interested in what I want, so I am looking into privately renting.

Does anyone have similar stats to us?

Dp earns 11000 pa
I have 2 little boys under 5
The house I am looking at is £450 pcm
according to the entitled to website I would get £30 pw housing benefit - is this the case?

I used the entitle to website and I did find it accurate. I would suspect its right - even if its £2 or £5 over - its still good. Your local council should have a website and on ours you can put in your figures and it will caculate your housing benefit for you.
I'm a single parent earning £11000 with 1 child and get housing benefit but obviously my circumstances are different to yours.

I used the entitle to website and I did find it accurate. I would suspect its right - even if its £2 or £5 over - its still good. Your local council should have a website and on ours you can put in your figures and it will caculate your housing benefit for you.
I'm a single parent earning £11000 with 1 child and get housing benefit but obviously my circumstances are different to yours.

sorry didnt mean to post it twice!

i do, i work part time, just 8hours for £230 a month. single and have 2 sons, do obviously get tax credits. i get £600 a month housing benefit and rent is £650.

seems to me like you should be getting more if dp only on £11,000

I think if you contact the housing benefit dept at local council they will do a pre rental assessment and give you an idea of hwat you would get.

thankyou. I didn't realise I would get any.

any more news colditz?did you get in touch with housing?

Be careful colditz. We were getting housing benefit, about £20 per week for our HA house. They stopped it in July only no one bothered to tell us until this week. So we are badly in arrears we never knew were happening. We are fighting this through appeal with probably no chance so I am going to contact our MSP.

We have had the worst couple of weeks and this just topped it off. Of course I am getting blamed by the council and housing association because I am a SAHM (DH works shifts so getting a weekend or evening job is out of the question, no company would be that accomodating.) What makes it particularly galling is that we have so many neighbours who don't work and won't work, refuse to do so, yet everything is paid without question. It has brought me to my lowest ebb.

This is your thread I am messing all over, sorry, but I just felt I should warn you to treat the council like idiots when applying and keep a careful eye that everything is being paid properly. I am also frustrated at where we live so can understand where you are coming from, it is about time families on genuine low incomes received as much help as those on benefits.