May 17th, 2010 by admin
I live in a house which has 3 bedrooms. I live in one of the rooms while in the other rooms live a single guy and a couple respectively. Recently I have become sick and my only income is Statutory Sick Pay. I’d like to claim HB. However, I am not sure if i should include the other people into my claim. If I do so I need to present a lot proofs about their income, benefits whatever. I am sure that they would not disclose these informations willingly, since we are strangers, I do not know even their full names and they hardly speak any English. BUT: The form asks: Including yourself how many people aged 18 or over live at the above adress. If I say none, I may end up being caught as a benefit cheater because I lied, but if I write 4, I will not get the HB because there is no way to get all the proofs and papers about their income that is required. Could anyone please help me? Thanks a lot.
Thanks. Just making clear: we are not joint tenants, we moved in on different dates, and have separate tenancy agreements, we only share the kitchen and the garden.
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If you pay your own rent you dont have to include the others but if you all share the house and pay the rent altogether yes you do but you still might get housing bennefit for yourself go to the advice place they will tell you also they will help you fill forms in PS just tell the housing how much you have to pay they will work on your income xx
I’ve got a form up on the screen, it’s for Cherwell but the form is pretty standard, and this is what it says about including other people who live with you, it’s not just all people at the address, you count as separate households unless they are living with you as part of your family, joint tenants, lodgers etc, so you just need proof of your own rent to claim unless the other people in the house are actually part of your household. Local Housing Allowance (this has replaced Housing Benefit for private rentals now) only pays the amount of a ‘single room allowance’ for a person under 25 now anyway which would be in a shared house so of course the amounts are worked out separately.
This is what the form says:
“Now tell us about all the people who usually live with you and your partner. Do not tell us about people who just share a hall, bathroom or toilet with you.
Some examples are aunt, brother, daughter, father, grandson, grandmother, stepdaughter, joint tenant, joint owner, subtenant,
lodger, boarder or friend.”
So it sounds to me unless the people in house are in any of the above categories, and if you just share the hall, bathroom etc. you do not have to put them down on the form, so you should get your Benefit OK, Good luck.