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Rent with bills included- what can be paid by UC?
My client is a private tenant in shared accommodation. Her rent includes utilities. UC asked her to get a landlord to provide a breakdown between core rent and utility charges. She desperately does not want her landlord to know she is claiming benefits.
Are these utility bills service charges?
I looked at the regs (Sch 1, para 7) and I am not sure.
Can you help?
There was another post on this recently. It is complete nonsense. There is no need to differentiate between core rent and charges in a private let because it all just falls under LHA.
Funny story here; for few days I was trying to say “Thanks Elliot” but Rightsnet kept refusing to accept my post. So I emailed Shawn who explained that Rightsnet does that when people are trying to post identical message.
Apparently too many people are trying to thank Elliot:)
I am just going to revert to my mother tongue to fool the IT code: dziękuję Elliot!
Proszę? My Polish isn’t too good. Glad I could help!