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No Standard Allowance

Barbara Knight
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Is it possible?
Notification letter showing Housing costs, but no standard allowance.
Housing being paid direct to landlord due to past arrears so zero payment.
Is this a mistake or can a claim have no standard allowance?

HB Anorak
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This can happen if the claimant is in prison but expected to return home within six months.

Alternatively it could be an unconventional way of notifying a sanction?

But my guess would be prison