Housing Benefits...

ReVenge87

Hello, i hope you all are well.

I would like to ask few questions before i start processing into it. At the moment i live with shared house with someone, i have disabilities, i'm on UC with LCWRA support. ive been bidding for council homes for over 3 years now and have heard nothing from them, i dont know if im doing it wrong or not. so i was thinking if this will work, if i find a rent place maybe like £500 PCM for 1 bedroom place, can i get housing benefit to cover the rent, maybe not all the rent but to ensure support my financially. im so new to this informations and still behind, can one of you help me out please? sorry for my english, im deaf and BSL users.

Thanks

Kimi87

It takes a very long time to be successful for social housing. Have you been in touch with them lately for advice? Where are you generally finishing up after bidding, on average?

If you get a private rental then you would claim Housing Element via Universal Credit for help with rent. The amount available is linked to Local Housing Allowance rates.

If you are under 35 then your maximum LHA is for shared accommodation.

If you are over 35, or under 35 with Daily Living PIP, one bedroom is your maximum entitlement.

https://lha-direct.voa.gov.uk/

ReVenge87

Hello Kimi87,

Thankyou for your respone.

i have been in touch with local social housing for advice etc, all they said sorry, can take it for a while. doesnt help much. im kinda of trapped in here and i need to get out from where i live at the moment due personal circumstance asap. I have daily living PIP and over 35, one bedroom is my maximum, does that mean one bedroom with shared accomodation? i prefer to rent on my own place, can i do that?

Thanks

Kimi87

Shared accommodation means you have your own bedroom but share other facilities.

One bedroom means a one bedroom place with no shared facilities.

Because you currently live in shared accommodation, you get that rate.

If you rent your own place, you would get the one bedroom rate.

Unfortunately it can be very difficult to find a private landlord who accepts benefit tenants.

Your local council housing department may keep a list of benefit friendly landlords, or try OpenRent where you cut out the letting agents and communicate directly with landlords.

https://www.openrent.co.uk/

Where on average are you finishing up after bidding currently? Might it be worth hanging on a bit longer?

ReVenge87

Thankyou for clairfications about one bedroom place, and a link of openrent website as well, looks very useful.

Talking about where on average am i finishing up after bidding? do you mean which bands? im on bands C.

Kimi87

I mean after you've bid on a property, does the system your local area uses show which number you finished at?

Mine shows how many bids there were, and where you finished (13 of 99 for example).

If not, the social housing team should be able to tell you.

Basically I'm asking so you can see how close you are getting in being successful.

ReVenge87

Oh yeah, i get what you mean now.

very vary depends on places. i see average maybe 35 to 40, about 2months ago, i was like in 20 to 30 and then now in 40 ish