Housing benefit - No. of bedrooms.

[Serene123]

Do you lose entitlement if you have more bedrooms than they say you need? Or do you just get less?

 

[nievesmama]

Im not 100% sure. I think theyll pay you what you are entitled to for the number of occupants, but you may have to pay the extra, if the rent is higher than what they say you are entitled to x

 

[JayleighAnn]

WSS. You'll get the amount your entitled to, but you have to sub the rest. But they don't always pay the amount your entitled to as thats a max amount not the set amount if that makes sense?

 

[AppleBlossom]

What the others said. They give you so much depending on other income then you have to add the rest yourself if your rent is more than what they give you

 

[Serene123]

I went on entitledto, and got quite a shock at what we're entitled to, but then I read on the housing benefit site that you're only allowed a certain number of bedrooms. I don't understand

 

[Serene123]

So the number of bedrooms you're entitled to doesn't matter?

 

[Tegans Mama]

If you're on income support, you'll get the full local housing allowance. Since I presume there are three of you, your BF and you are allowed one room and Caitlyn one. That means you're allowed two bedrooms, so you'll get paid the weekly rate for a 2 bed property (£103 a week where I am). They don't take anything off you, but they don't cover the whole amount if its more.

 

[Serene123]

Nope no IS, and our income isn't low either. We don't get the full amount at all, not even close but it does say we get more than the nothing we thought we could apply for..

So we can tell them we have a 3 bed, we're entitled to a 2 bed, and still be entitled to the money?

 

[Tegans Mama]

Yep We have a three bed, and are only entitled to a 2, but we still get HB. It doesn't matter if you had a 10 bed, if you're entitled you're entitled regardless

 

[stephx]

So we can tell them we have a 3 bed, we're entitled to a 2 bed, and still be entitled to the money?

Yeah I think thats how it works, they will pay the rent of what you are entitled to

xx

 

[Tegans Mama]

Although I imagine to have a 10 bed you'd be loaded anyway

 

[Serene123]

Thank you ladies! xx

 

[AppleBlossom]

I'm in a 3 bed but in terms of HB only entitled to 2 but I still get some money from them I just have to pay the extra since this house costs more to rent than a smaller one

 

[Serene123]

And so the house hunting commenses.................!

 

[Eoz]

No hun you do not get it all paid.


I have a 3 bed house and have 4 kids but only receive child benefit for 2 so i have to pay for the 3rd room.An extra 160 a month.Not easy on Income support i can tell you.you can get local housing allowance but they do look at your needs 1st and child benefit is a huge factor x

 

[Serene123]

We were expecting to have to pay the whole wack to be honest, I didn't feel like we would be entitled to anything as we can manage the full rent pretty easily, but I went on entitledto.co.uk to find out about WTC (which we get NONE!) and it said we were entitled to housing benefit x

 

[Eoz]

Oh yes you will be entitled to some because of LO even my single mate who gets 1000 a month gets a little bit of help.It is all circumstances and there is a bracket to which they pay but beware as i took this house on thinking i'd get help as i was told but nope not at all.Best check with the local council.Sometimes they have on line calculators on their sites x

 

[Serene123]

Well we budgeted to not get anything, so we'll still manage without it... Hope we do get it though!

 

[Eoz]

You should get some hun. Remember though they take up to 12 weeks to sort out claims.Shocked you don't get working tax but whilst you get child tax cred you should other things ie H/B x

 

[oOKayOo]

If you get a good wage you wont get any help , going by what you said before about how OH earns a fair good wage higher then some i dobt you will get any. We dont get any help with council tax nor housing benefit and our wage shot down last year and still arnt eligible.

I guess if the place has a silly amount of rent you may??