Help with moving costs

thai2005

hi everyone hope your safe and well does anyone know if there's and help towards moving costs if your disabled 

katho31

Hi @thai2005, i think @Lou67 may be able to help in a bit, shes recently moved, hope your well 

Lou67

Hin@thai2005 thanks Kath, yeah I moved just over a month ago, I live in Glasgow I applied to the Scottish Welfare Discretionary Fund, for help they awarded me £180 to help with Removels, I was so grateful, I hope you to can get some help, take care ?

poppy123456

Hi,

For help with rent in advance if this is needed and you're already claiming either housing benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit you can apply for a discretionary housing payment. All local councils have their own budget for this but you can certainly try. See link. https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/benefits/discretionary_housing_payments_dhp

Other than that, if you live in England, there's no help that i know of. At least all the times i've moved house there was no help and the last time i moved was just 9 months ago.

If you've been claiming certain means tested benefits for at least 6 months there's either a budgeting loan or a budgeting advance (if you claim UC) this needs to be repaid back from future benefit payments. The amount you can borrow depends on circumstances. https://www.gov.uk/budgeting-help-benefits/eligibility

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/benefits/universal-credit/on-universal-credit/budgeting-advance/

Hope this helps. Good luck with the move.

Chloe_Alumni

Hi @thai2005, how are you doing?