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  • tanya189
    tanya189 Community member Posts: 61 Listener
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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,010 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2022
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    The housing element is based on rent of £407.03. Is that the correct amount? ( the weekly equivalent is £93.93)

    They don’t get help with 25% of the rent because they have 2 spare rooms.
    Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK.
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  • poppy123456
    poppy123456 Community member Posts: 54,395 Disability Gamechanger
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    If they don't know what the £76 deductions are for i'd advise you to ring and ask them, or put a message onto their journal under the payments section and ask.
    I would appreciate it if members wouldn't tag me please. I have all notifcations turned off and wouldn't want a member thinking i'm being rude by not replying.
    If i see a question that i know the answer to i will try my best to help.
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  • tanya189
    tanya189 Community member Posts: 61 Listener
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    calcotti said:
    The housing element is based on rent of £407.03. Is that the correct amount? ( the weekly equivalent is £93.93)

    They don’t get help with 25% of the rent because they have 2 spare rooms.
    Yes I think that is right. 

    I wasn't suggesting it's wrong, it's just more than they paid before they switched to UC so wondered why
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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,010 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2022
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    tanya189 said: I wasn't suggesting it's wrong, it's just more than they paid before they switched to UC so wondered why
    If they were previously claiming Housing Benefit they should also have been required to pay 25% of the rent if they had two spare rooms.
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  • tanya189
    tanya189 Community member Posts: 61 Listener
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    They were. They've paid the so called bedroom tax since it was introduced
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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,010 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2022
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    tanya189 said:
    They were. They've paid the so called bedroom tax since it was introduced
    So I don’t understand why you are saying they are paying more on the rent than before. They are paying 25% (although obviously if the rent has gone up that 25% will be a slightly higher amount).
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  • tanya189
    tanya189 Community member Posts: 61 Listener
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    They were paying 80 something towards their rent before and now they're paying £107
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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,010 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2022
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    tanya189 said:
    They were paying 80 something towards their rent before and now they're paying £107
    The UC statement says they need to pay £101.76/month (unless there is a service charge on top or some arrears to pay off).

    Was the £80 every month or every four weeks (which would be £86.66/month).

    Has the rent changed since they were on Housing Benefit?
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  • tanya189
    tanya189 Community member Posts: 61 Listener
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    OK so having spoken to my parents they have to pay £103 out of their own money to make up the rent. So nearly what it's meant to be?
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  • calcotti
    calcotti Community member Posts: 10,010 Disability Gamechanger
    edited January 2022
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    Not going to worry about a discrepancy of £1.24/month. There can be slight discrepancies depending on exactly how the calculations are carried out.
    Information I post is for England unless otherwise stated. Rules may be different in other parts of UK.
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  • tanya189
    tanya189 Community member Posts: 61 Listener
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    Yeah exactly, just wanted to understand how it works
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