stainsby
Welfare Benefits Officer, Gallions Housing Association, Thamesmead SE London
Member since 22nd Jan 2004
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RE: Company let - housing benefit stopped
Fri 13-Feb-09 07:05 PM |
Alternatively, under Reg 8(1)(c) a person is held to be liable to make payments if he is:
" a person who has to make the payments if he is to continue to live in the home because the person liable to make them is not doing so and either– (i) he was formerly a partner of the person who is so liable; or (ii) he is some other person whom it is reasonable to treat as liable to make the payments;"
The person who is primarily liable make the payments is the company and the company is not doing so, but your client has to make those payments in order to continue to live in the home, and it is also reasonable to treat him as laible to make the payments.
There was no reason to stop the HB in the circumstances, and what is more, the Council may well have no grounds to revise its decision if it was well aware that the lease was in the name of the comapny, and its just a matter of another assessor taking a different view.
An appeal needs to be lodged immediately
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