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URGENT HELP NEEDED

Liz S
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Welfare specialist and appeals officer - Herefordshire Council Welfare Rights Team

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We have a situation where we have a severely learning disabled client moving into a specially built and adapted property provided on her parents land and HB needs to be claimed to meet the rent liability.

However the parent is also the appointee - how do we manage this? Am sure I’ve seen something on this somewhere but it’s Friday and the brain is refusing to function today….........

Please advise…........the tenancy would be made available to another tenant if client was not able to reside there. There has been no intention to deliberately ‘gain’ from the HB system, there is no other suitable accommodation available in the area for our client.

Liz S
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Has there been a recent decision on a similar scenario recently? We are receiving very negative feedback from our advisors here….....

seand
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Is this what you’re thinking of?

http://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/2749/

not quite the same issue, but similar ground