Hi,

First post here; hope someone can help ...

I'm trying to figure out what costs can be included in a HB claim and what costs can't e.g.

is is possible to claim for, say, maintenance of grounds (garden) of a property? replacement of furniture and/or appliance?

does anyone know of a list of eligible costs?

or maybe a template to use when trying to figure them out?

Thanks in advance,
Mark.

Do you mean service charges?

If you do there's quite a lot of info in the CPAG handbook as a starting point.

Regards

Nicky

There is no such thing as a list of eligible and ineligible expenses...

Basically, a charge is eligible if it is a payment that is essential to maintain your client(s) in their property, (excluding water rates, and any personal items heating and lighting being the main ones).

So maintenance of communinal grounds are eligible, (this is not personal to your client, and a payment for a communinal garden is usually a requirement to remain in the property, so yes it would be eligible, a payment for the maintenance of an individual garden at the back/front of someone’s home would not be eligible as it is personal).

Replacement furniture for the clients home (if it belongs to the landlord) is eligible, if it is to replace your clients own property (or it is property belonging to the landlord, being paid for over a number of years which will then become the property of your client), then it is not eligible.

Hope this helps...

Thanks for your replies, they have been of great assistance.