Non dependent and uni

snuggles65

my non dependent son is away at university does it have an affect on our ESA support group, housing benefit and pip (enhanced for both)and council tax

Kimmy87

For the reasons given before, your ESA and Housing Benefit are not effected.

Council Tax might be, as previously advised we can't comment on individual CT cases because each local authority has a different scheme.

You'd need to talk to them directly.

snuggles65

Hi

I know him working won't like you advise me. But I've been looking online he was away at uni and we got all of the above without deductions, should there been deductions from our benefits when he was at uni.

Kimmy87

No not from your ESA, or Housing Benefit for the reasons given previously. Those reasons still apply even though the situation was different.

Council Tax as I said we can't advise on from here.

poppy123456

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/974046#Comment_974046

When he was away at Uni, it would depend on where he was treated as living. Some students are treated as still living at home because once they finish Uni they will return home. This would mean your housing benefit would not have been reduced.

For council tax reduction, students are disregarded anyway so that wouldn't have been affected. Now he's home and working full time, it maybe affected but we can't advise with that as advised in your other thread.

ESA wouldn't have been affected because it didn't include the SDP.

snuggles65

My son was away at uni but came home when he completed is course

poppy123456

I don't know what other advice to give other than what we've already advised.