Rent free weeks & UC

bentan930
bentan930 Online Community Member Posts: 24 Connected
edited May 22 in Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

As housing Benefit has always paid my rent I wasn’t aware I had rent free weeks. If UC housing is paid monthly I’m wondering how they work it out ? Do they know when the rent free weeks are ? Also how do they compensate for months being different lengths. Is the housing amount different every month ?

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 5,645 Championing

    What UC do is add up your total annual rent liability, then divide that into 12 equal payments. So you will receive the same amount each month.

  • bentan930
    bentan930 Online Community Member Posts: 24 Connected

    ok so that means for 2 months out of 3 I’ll actually be short what has to be paid, not much. But 1 month out of 3 I’ll actually be over as will be a free week. This is gonna be bit confusing.

  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 5,645 Championing

    Speak to your Landlord, they will be well used to people paying their rent via UC Housing Element 😊

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