Hi any help with the issue below would help.
A 19 year old student is in receipt of UC and enhanced ADP, she is starting University in September 2024.
She will be claiming housing costs for the place she lives at during University. She will need to go back to the family home most weekends and all holidays, as she won’t cope with being away at university for long periods. She also has an overnight carer at the family home, that she shares with her mum.
Would she be allowed a bedroom allocation on her mums UC claim at the family home, as she will only be temporarily absent from that home, or will the fact that she has a rent liability elsewhere ie at university, mean that she can’t have a bedroom allocation at the family home.
It’s a very difficult situation because the mother currently private lets and will not be able to cover the £300 LHA reduction if the daughter is not allowed a bedroom, so will have to move.
the daughter says that knowing she can’t “run home” to a bedroom (safe space) and the help of the overnight carer when things get tough at university scares her and she is seriously thinking of not going to University.
Living at home during University is not possible as the commute would be too difficult for her to manage.
I’m inclined to think she won’t be counted as part of her mum’s household as well as having housing costs at University.
