Housing benefits... advice needed

[redsonja]

I dont understand why you have to do threats of court!

Giving a tenant notice is enough providing you have adhered to the terms in the tenancy agreement.

Give her exact notice of when she has to be out by and the council will have to give her accomodation if she cant find anywhere else.

She should start looking for any other private rented accomodation though.

[batty_uk]

Thats the irony of it all.......housing benefits state i am not her landlord and housing state I am! I gave her a letter 4 months ago which she took to the housing office and she was told "she is your landlord and she will have to serve an eviction notice"

Also private landlords want a huge deposit and very few will accept HB let alone 3 kids.

[The GodMother]

The reason why private landlords dont accept housing benefit is because they dont sort the claims quick enough and the landlords want there money b4 the claim can be sorted.

Even within my local council we are having to wait up to 6 mths for the HB to be sorted and most of the time all the landlords including council and HA have served you with eviction papers by then.

[batty_uk]

yes I know and I understand that. The whole benefits system needs ripping out and starting again!!! So I am still at stalemate
but again thanks to everyone who replied to my post .