I'm looking for some help on information regarding rent supplement.
I'm not going to go in to my life history but due to severe disability I missed a lot of my education and hope to start to remedy that this year.
I am on disability allowance and live with family but if I go in to education I would need to move beside the college, the problem being I could never afford rent on disability and will be unable to work to fund rent so I was wondering what would I need to do.
I understand that I'd need to apply to the council housing list but does it need to be the council of where I plan to go or can I apply to my local council also if I'm undecided as to where I'm going, can I apply to a few councils?
Does it need to be a face to face meeting to apply?
Also if I am added to the housing list, do I need to do anything else until I apply for rent allowance?
Although I contribute substantial money to the bills of the house, as its not in my name I have no record of this, will this impact my applications for either the housing list or rent supplement?
Do I explain to the council my reasons for applying for social housing?
I apologise for all the questions, I'm usually very well clued in on things but I have no experiance of rent supplement/social housing and I'm not finding the the citizensinformation site on rent supplement that easy to wrap my head around.
Thank you.
I'm not going to go in to my life history but due to severe disability I missed a lot of my education and hope to start to remedy that this year.
I am on disability allowance and live with family but if I go in to education I would need to move beside the college, the problem being I could never afford rent on disability and will be unable to work to fund rent so I was wondering what would I need to do.
I understand that I'd need to apply to the council housing list but does it need to be the council of where I plan to go or can I apply to my local council also if I'm undecided as to where I'm going, can I apply to a few councils?
Does it need to be a face to face meeting to apply?
Also if I am added to the housing list, do I need to do anything else until I apply for rent allowance?
Although I contribute substantial money to the bills of the house, as its not in my name I have no record of this, will this impact my applications for either the housing list or rent supplement?
Do I explain to the council my reasons for applying for social housing?
I apologise for all the questions, I'm usually very well clued in on things but I have no experiance of rent supplement/social housing and I'm not finding the the citizensinformation site on rent supplement that easy to wrap my head around.
Thank you.