Helping homeless Daughter and benefits query

[angel49]

Hi My Daughter has made a homeless application whilst waiting to be evicted tomoro. She has to present herself at the neighbourhood office. She will likely be offered hostel or b&b. She has 2 young children and is on anti depressants and is unable to face the idea of a hostel. I am in receipt of DLA and pension credits. Would my benefits be affected if I offered to have them in my home for a few weeks whilst waiting for council accommodation? Thanks for any advice

[honeybee13]

Hello there. Sorry to hear about your daughter and her problems, I hope some of the benefits gurus will be able to help you. Another useful source of information in case you need it is Shelter. They've had good reviews here.

 

My best to you both, HB x

[ErikaPNP]

Won't affect your DLA or Pension Credit (unless you are making an income from rent), may affect housing benefit/council tax benefit, but depends. I need to ask a few questions before I can give an answer.

 

Your DLA - is this care component or mobility component?

 

Your daughter - how old is she, and what (if any) benefits does she receive?

[angel49]

thank you honeybee. shelter did help with advice on making the homeless application. She is being evicted from private accommodation.

[angel49]

My DLA is care and mobility.

 

My Daughter is 40. Both children are on child protection register due to an abusive previous relationship with their father. My daughter gets income support and child benefit.

[honeybee13]

It's very kind of you to help her out. I hope it works out, but please come back to us for more advice if you need it after Erika sorts you out.

 

My best to you both, HB

[ErikaPNP]

As you receive the care component of DLA, no non dependent deduction would be applied to your HB or CTBs so your benefits should be fine.

 

However, if you allow them to move in with you, this may well hinder her application for social housing. It could affect their priority status if they are not in what the council terms as "emergency accomodation". Also, council housing in some areas have waiting lists of months to years, rather than weeks. I can't advise you sufficiently on that though, so I would suggest you post in the lettings subforum for information about that.

[leemack]

Also to consider - do you live on your own and get a severe disability premium with your pension credit - you would only get this if no one lives with you, no one claims carers allowance for you, and you get either middle or higher rate care component.

[angel49]

Thank you all for your replies and advice. I'm not really sure what my pension credit is made up with. I have my2 eldest Grandchildren living with me for the last 7 years. I used to get Carer Allowance but the eldest Grandson earns a fair wage which disqualified the claim. He still helps when I'm unwell though (epilepsy and heart probs)

 

I have made it very clear to my Daughter I can only allow her to stay for a maximum of 6 weeks. She will use my bedroom for her and the 2 youngest.Friends have gathered round to help with storing her furniture. The eviction happening this morning. Only that its very traumatic for her whilst on medication for her depression, I would have ensured she went into emergency accommodation.

 

Many thanks for the kind replies.

[leemack]

If you already have adult non dependants living with you then you won't be receiving a severe disability premium with your pension credit, so your daughter moving in won't affect it. If at any time your family moves out and you live alone, you should contact the pension service as you would be entitled to a bit of extra money. (until the current govn get rid of premiums!)