Can i claim housing benefit for a house owned by my father

[hiblingz]

i recieve housing benefit for a house which i rent from a private landlord.

he has told me that the mortgage payments for the house i am renting from him have gone up

I spoke to the council and they told me i have to cover the shortfall myself as i allready recieve the maximum ammount of benefit.

There is no way i can cover the shortfall so my father has aggreed to buy a house and let it to me (buy to let)

Will i still be able to claim housing benefit?

[joko]

and still...no one can quite put the finger on what exactly the scam is can they? you just dont like it...out of jealousy...plain and simple

its hilarous

[HARPY]

Now everyone who does not agree with her is a religious warmonger.

[joko]

and for the 20th time - ITS NOT MY HOUSE DOC!

haha good one harpy...twist away...lazy of course but hey ho

[HARPY]

You twist joko your words

joko
(19:33 on Thu 02/Sep/10) ...it is attutudes like this that start wars and religious intolerance etc...

[mrs_overall]

Now, now doc.
Just because you started on the property ladder the hard way, beginning with the hole in the road and then progressing to the cardboard box......xx

[joko]

how have the state paid for the house?

he owns it! he bought it in full with his own money...how is the state payin for it?

what has what my dad chooses to leave me in his will affect my life now...?

seriously doc ...this has all been covered before...read back and get the facts ...

[HARPY]

Did you not say I have a house (mine, but still in my dads name legally)

[joko]

yes...i said attitudes like this...i did not say everyone on here was...are you really that simple taht you dont understand that sentence?

it was a lame and lazy attempt to stir somethign up and you know it

[joko]

yes...i said i live in a house...i think of it as mine because i intend to live here indefintely...but its not actually mine...what part of that dont you understand...?

[joko]

its like renting a flat...its your home, its yours, you class it as yours...but you dont own it legally do you...

[HARPY]

Did you not want a mortgage based on this property that was yours that is now your dads.

[overthetop]

Just to remind everybody what Joko's own property ambitions are (courtesy of an earlier poster).

http://www.theanswerb...e/Question928590.html

[joko]

harpy - read it properly...my whole question was about whteher there was anyway i could get a mortgage on a property i DO NOT OWN

there is no way so i cannot do it - so i have no choice but to get housing benefit for those periods that i am looking for work...

i do not expect to just be given a house for free.... i dont know many people who would just give one away either - do you? would you?

[joko]

and what would be the difference doc, if strangers lived there...? you would still get rent right?

what a ludicrous post

[joko]

yes oot...thats my future ambition...because i am trying to get out of the situation i am in!!!

jeez...at least undertsand what youre posting! haha

[HARPY]

joko

(02:37 on Wed 18/Aug/10)
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cassa...the house is mine...it is willed to me and i have lived here 15 years...its has been given to me in all but the deeds. it will not be going anywhere, let alone a cats home and thanks for your answer but i am not a child