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ESA doesn't cover her bills

My daughter is on esa an rents a 1 bed flat her rent is 400 a month an benefit pays 54 she can't get discretionary payment fund is there anything else she can do as her total benefit is 432 every two week which leaves her 32 for food an bills
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Have you tried the online benefits calculator to see if there's anything else she may be able to claim? PIP (personal independence payments) may be worth looking into!
Thank you for sharing about your daughters rent issues.
I am unsure of an answer to your question. Some one from our team will know or a member of our community will advise..
Have you spoken to CAB . They have a wealth of knowledge and expertise and do know can advise on housing issues and problems.
Also for benefit enquiries as well.
Hope that helps.
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The CAB is always a good place to go for advice but always keep in mind that whenever benefits are involved it takes a while to get them sorted properly and the risk is to fall into debt while waiting. Payday loans are exacerbating this also when people get desperate and fall for the easy money at high interest rates. It invariably ends up in even more debt. Online gambling too has become too easy and my ex-son in law fell foul of first those and then payday loans trying to get out of it. Credit now is far too easy to get and debt too hard to get out of, fortunately most of it not available when I was young.
In my childhood most houses had two parent families and often shared with other relatives when necessary. I remember my uncle and aunt moving into our upstairs for 6 months when they got into trouble. Now there are too many one parent families and too little housing and everyone expects a home of their own at a much younger age than it used to be. I was lucky in that me and my first had good paying jobs when we married at my age of 20 but almost all of our furniture was given to us secondhand by family and the only new thing we has to buy was a cooker. Now it seems everyone expects brand new stuff from the start. As wages have dropped back over the last 20 years and people's expectations have risen over the same period it was bound to go badly at some point. I'm just glad I don't have to go through it myself.
Apologies, I have rambled a bit and wandered off topic a little.
TK