HA tenancy for a Minor - can Guarantor get UCHE? 

Where the liability for rent rests with a child for whom the claimant is responsible, then it can be included in the award as though it were the claimant’s liability - see para 1, sch 2 UC Regs.

However the issue here isn’t really about liability, its about residence. It seems far from clear that anybody is living in the property as their main residence and that would seem to be the problem with their claim.

the HA place is a one bed, the family home is a 2 bed - and the customer has 4 kids plus the grandaughtr, so think thats why they are splitting the time as neither property big enough to accommodate everyone. 

Thanks for the info , really useful

It may be arguable   following Secretary of State v Miah [2003] EWCA Civ 1111 (Reported as R(JSA)9/03 ) CH/1895/2008 Hackney LB v GA [2008] UKUT 26 (AAC)  (Reported as R(H)5/09) and Birmingham CC v IB [2009] UKUT 116 (AAC) that the dwelling occupied by the claimant comprises both properties

Mia was concerned with disregarded capital ( the value of the dwelling occupied as the home being disregarded)

Judge Jacobs held in [2008] UKUT 26 that although Miah was not binding in the context of the case before him, there was nothing in the structure of the HB legislation that precluded ” dwelling” from having the meaning ascribed to it in Miah.

In IB Judge Mark reached the same conclusions as Judge Jacobs   in R(H)5/09

The UC Regs use the word “acommodation ” rather than “dwelling”.  “Acommodation” is not defined, but I cannnot find any reason to suppose that in this context “accommodation” isn’t synonymous with “dwelling”