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Lower/Higher Work Allowance & Supported Housing
Clients living in supported accommodation will have their housing benefit paid as before ie by the LA and the HB will be outside of their UC payments. Please can you then advise me if such residents would subject to the lower or higher work allowance. Many thanks,
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Good question.
Reg.22(2) says:
(2) The amount of the work allowance is–
(a) if the award contains no amount for the housing costs element, the applicable amount of the higher work allowance specified in the table below; and
(b) if the award does contain an amount for the housing costs element, the applicable amount of the lower work allowance specified in that table.
The award will not, presumably, contain ‘an amount for the housing costs element’, so it should be the higher work allowance.
Many thanks for your reply - so a single person aged 26 with no children and who has limited capability for work could bring in a month….
Single claimant aged 25 or over = £317.82
LCFW Element = £126.11
Monthly earnings without tax or NI deductions at higher work alowance = £646.00
Equating to £251.52 a week
As long as he was earning £646 a month. The HB assessment is separate for specified accommodation.
But then the UC plus earnings would go into the HB calc ....
But then the UC plus earnings would go into the HB calc ....
Universal credit is a passporting benefit for HB.
http://lawvolumes.dwp.gov.uk/docs/a8-2501.pdf
Schedule 4 Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of earnings
...
12. Where a claimant is on
1 universal credit, income support
2 an income-basedjobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance
, his earnings
Schedule 5 Sums to be disregarded in the calculation of income other than earnings
...
4.Where a claimant is on
1 universal credit, income support
2 an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or an income-related employment and support allowance
the whole of his income.
Thank you Tim, I did realise as soon as I posted that UC leads to max HB. Too many UC issues buzzing round head this week.