Bedroom tax

peters77
peters77 Community Member Posts: 206 Contributor
in Benefits and income

4 bed house 3 adults 2 children (14/17 years old) one adult moves out will I be hit with bedroom tax

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  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,848 Online Community Team

    Hi @peters77 potentially. When allocating the council look at how many people are in your house, how many can share a room etc. I'm guessing this adult has always been living in this room since bedroom tax was reviewed initially?

  • peters77
    peters77 Community Member Posts: 206 Contributor

    two youngest (minors same sex) share and eldest adult child has his own room and second eldest adult own room and I’ve have my own room.

  • peters77
    peters77 Community Member Posts: 206 Contributor

    I think as one of the children will be an adult come their birthday in September will be different

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,139 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129180#Comment_1129180

    If you share a bedroom with your partner then it does not matter what the children's ages are in this case. They will still only be entitled to one bedroom each. 2 adults and 2 children will mean 3 bedroom entitlement. Unless any of you need an overnight carer, or you and your partner have been allowed separate bedrooms due to medical conditions. We just don't have enough information to go on here unfortunately.

  • peters77
    peters77 Community Member Posts: 206 Contributor

    I don’t have a partner she passed last year, it’s just me two adult children and two under 18s 4 bed house.

  • Mr_Shoes_Tied
    Mr_Shoes_Tied Community Member Posts: 111 Empowering

    then you'd get four bedroom with no bedroom tax.

    You: Bedroom one

    Adult child 1: Bedroom 2

    Adult child 2: Bedroom 3

    Youngest two: Bedroom 4

    If one of your adult children moves out you'd still get the 4 bed allowance as technically the 14 and 17 are entitled to own room allowance after age 16 if they are same gender and after 10 if they opposite

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,139 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129689#Comment_1129689

    My apologies, I didn't see that post.

    As above, you would still be entitled to 4 bedrooms as the youngest two are not currently expected to share anyway.

    You may have to pay a non-dependant deduction for the adult children at some point. If you're not currently paying that I suspect at least one of you gets a qualifying disability benefit for an exemption, unless both are under 21.

  • Danny123
    Danny123 Community Member Posts: 229 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1129171#Comment_1129171

    I take it this doesn't count for anyone living with there parents that doesn't claim housing benefit , no bedroom tax can be applied there

  • Holly_Scope
    Holly_Scope Posts: 5,848 Online Community Team
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1130112#Comment_1130112

    I'm far from an expert on this, but it can be challenging to justify. Are they working?

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