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some advice???

davek75

hello ladies and gents,

i know what your all thinking.... oh no! not davek75 again!! :)

well i have a little problem and am just looking for some advice really....

i have a new home as most of you already know but have a problem, when i first took the tennancy i was told to bring with me a £10 postal order for a contribution towards rent which i did and never thought anything more of it.... however a week later i had the housing association telling me i was a week behind with the rent?? and was i sent a rent card??? im entitled to full housing benefit and have already put a housing benefit form in for the property.

they then informed me that every tennant is a week in advance and was i able to pay £10 a week till i was a week in advance... to which i said yes! (anything to keep my new found home)...

NOW... because i was never informed on sign up for the property about being a week in advance am i obligated to still pay this or can they demand the week in advance to which i was never informed of???

thanks :)

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  • If you can, go along with it. If you cannot pay then you need to find out if you can acquire an advance from benefits.

    Rented property carries a lot of up fronts - yiou are lucky it is only £10 by which you have to stay ahead. 

    They can ask for money to be held against breakages, which as anyone will tell you, even if you never break anything and leave the place perfect at the end of the tenancy, you'll have a job to get any of it back. Some places ask for money to cover transfer over gas and electric if you aren't taking over the accounts in person.

    The world goes around on slush money, and the benefits office may be quite strict on what they pay towards it, leaving you to pick up the extras. Its an unjust world and you just need to live with it. You may get your surplus back later, you may not.

    Look at it this way. How many other ways have you lost ten pounds and had to live with it? This is probably a better cause than most.

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  • If you can, go along with it. If you cannot pay then you need to find out if you can acquire an advance from benefits.

    Rented property carries a lot of up fronts - yiou are lucky it is only £10 by which you have to stay ahead. 

    They can ask for money to be held against breakages, which as anyone will tell you, even if you never break anything and leave the place perfect at the end of the tenancy, you'll have a job to get any of it back. Some places ask for money to cover transfer over gas and electric if you aren't taking over the accounts in person.

    The world goes around on slush money, and the benefits office may be quite strict on what they pay towards it, leaving you to pick up the extras. Its an unjust world and you just need to live with it. You may get your surplus back later, you may not.

    Look at it this way. How many other ways have you lost ten pounds and had to live with it? This is probably a better cause than most.

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