nikki-red Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Are people on housing benefit allowed to take in lodgers? From same link I posted above... From April 2013 lodgers will count as occupying a room under the size criteria rules. Any income from a lodger will be taken into account and deducted pound for pound from benefit apart from the first £20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricgem2002 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Are people on housing benefit allowed to take in lodgers? there will be ways and means around it, and if done right could mean the tenant staying in the house without to much hardship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 .............in the blue corner....................and in the red corner Tony, Ed and hundreds more whose names escape me. ... and in the same pot? We find... their wee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 From same link I posted above... From April 2013 lodgers will count as occupying a room under the size criteria rules. Any income from a lodger will be taken into account and deducted pound for pound from benefit apart from the first £20. So, not only do we find "money comes to money" (as always, as my late mum used to say) it's "heads they win, tails we lose":- We can't even take in a lodger, to help make up this very blatant "stealth tax". According to the rent I'm currently charged for my property (£80/ week) I will be paying £12, approximately, to enable me to stay in my adapted property. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 So, not only do we find "money comes to money" (as always, as my late mum used to say) it's "heads they win, tails we lose":- We can't even take in a lodger, to help make up this very blatant "stealth tax". According to the rent I'm currently charged for my property (£80/ week) I will be paying £12, approximately, to enable me to stay in my adapted property. I think once the new system comes in you can rent rooms at as much as you want. Which seems sensible to ensure rooms are utilised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrod Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 The private sector is funded via local housing allowance, and is only paid to meet the cost of a property which meets your needsThat doesn't stop some people from wanting to penalise others who've paid for their own homes through hard work and taxation over the years, but throw money at benefit absorbers who may never have worked a day in their lives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 I think once the new system comes in you can rent rooms at as much as you want. Which seems sensible to ensure rooms are utilised. it doesn't look like that will be the case, according to what Nikki-red posted:- From April 2013 lodgers will count as occupying a room under the size criteria rules. Any income from a lodger will be taken into account and deducted pound for pound from benefit apart from the first £20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrod Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 From same link I posted above... From April 2013 lodgers will count as occupying a room under the size criteria rules. Any income from a lodger will be taken into account and deducted pound for pound from benefit apart from the first £20. And what's the alternative, for the taxpayer to pay people housing benefit when they don't need it? Hey, great, let's just allow people to claim benefits off hard-working taxpayers whether they need it or not? Have they no shame? For goodness' sake, why do people think they should be ENTITLED to sponge off the taxpayer?????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 it doesn't look like that will be the case, according to what Nikki-red posted:- "This reverses under Universal Credit – lodgers will not be counted as occupying a room and the size criteria reduction will apply, but any income from lodgers will be fully disregarded and will not impact on the amount of a claimant’s Universal Credit award." From Nikkis link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I1L2T3 Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 And what's the alternative, for the taxpayer to pay people housing benefit when they don't need it? Hey, great, let's just allow people to claim benefits off hard-working taxpayers whether they need it or not? Have they no shame? For goodness' sake, why do people think they should be ENTITLED to sponge off the taxpayer?????? Many benefits claimants are hard-working tax payers. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/10/22/housing-benefit-working-people-national-housing-federation-david-orr_n_1999000.html?utm_hp_ref=uk A failure to build enough new homes in recent years has pushed rents and house prices up, and led to an 86% increase in housing benefit claims since 2009 by those in employment, according to a National Housing Federation (NHF) report. The study said that 10,000 more working families now need housing benefit every month to help pay their rent, with 417,830 more workers claiming them over the last three years. Your mantra about lazy benefits claimants is starting to look a bit...dare I say it...lazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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