Housing benefit stops because temporary work

[estellyn]

But if the reason why I did not claim earlier was that I was mistaken and I believed that there will be an automatic backdating of up to four weeks I do not know if this will be considered as a good reason by the council to ask to have my claim backdated.

I know that for claiming working tax credit there is an automatic backdating. The main point is to know if there has been a change in law few years ago and I can maybe put forward as reason why I did not claim earlier the fact that I was not aware of this change of the law

 

Unless you can show you were misadvised, then being mistaken is not good cause for failing to claim earlier.

[id330uk]

I was in JSA when I moved in.

 

I would like to know if you can tell me which law says that if we were in JSA when we move in we have one month to make a claim for housing benefit. I need this information because I would to make an appeal to the Council so that to be paid from the beginning of my tenancy even though I made my claim three weeks after my tenancy started.

[id6052]

was it JSA(ib) or JSA© ?

[id6052]

Assuming you were in receipt of JSA(ib), the relevant legislation is Regulation 83(5)(b) of Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 which states

 

(5) Subject to paragraph (10), the date on which a claim is made shall be –

 

(b) in a case where the claimant or his partner is a person on income support, an income-based jobseeker´s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance and he becomes liable for the first time to make payments in respect of the dwelling which he occupies as his home, where the claim is received at the designated office or appropriate DWP office within one month of the claimant first becoming liable for such payments, the date he became liable for those payments;