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Housing Element to pay Family Landlord
So I have a client who wants to know if he was to rent a room from his brother, would his Universal Credit pay those housing costs with him being a family member.
No. Para 5 of Schedule 2 to the UC Regs says you cannot get a housing element for rent payable to a close relative who lives in the “accommodation”. Case law on the equivalent rule in HB (which refers to the “dwelling”) takes a common-sense view about lodgers who argue that they have carved out a separate dwelling/accommodation in their private room - there is in reality bound to be some overlap between the living space used by the landlord and claimant respectively.
Ahh thank you. I don’t know how I missed that.