Can you claim housing benefit retrospectively?
April 27th, 2010 by admin
However, I’ve only earned £100 from work this month cos my hours have been cut from 5 days a week to 1. My rent’s £260 a month. I was hoping to bale myself out (as I’ve done before) by working hard for the last two weeks of the month. And I was offered a temp job for this week. But now that’s fallen through cos the company is winding down. So basically, unless I earn £400 in the last week of January, I will be out of pocket this month. If I’d claimed housing benefit at the start of the month I’d got my rent (or a large chunk of it) which is £260, plus £240 dole money (about £60 a week multiplied by four weeks), which is £500 in total. As it is, from work I’ve only got about £100.
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In theory you sometimes can, I don’t know how often it’s successful, but it’s worth trying. You have to go to the council and ask to put in a request for backdating when you claim, you have to prove that you had a good reason for claiming late, for instance if you believed that your lowering of income was temporary.
You can try
sometimes they will back date rent benefits but in your case seeings as you knew what was happening and was hoping to bale yourself out as you put it then i doubt they would. your claim would start from the date you got your application
You can go to this website and they will tell you exactly what you are entiltled to, it is
Just one teensy grey area here- How is it you were working 5 days a week (or planning to) and claiming dole money at the same time?