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How did you get an advance of Universal Credit payment and get a UC claim opened if you didn't qualify for Universal Credit? If you had given them the correct figures then you would not have had a Universal Credit claim opened. Did you give them the correct fiqures on your UC claim form?tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmMy issue is, I applied for universal credit as a single parent to help rent a two bedroom flat and also advanced payment a few months ago. I was granted advanced payment of about £330 but did not receive universal credit because they deemed my income to be sufficient to pay my rent.
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I have asked my universal credit application to be closed and intend to repay the advanced payment. My query is, will my naturalisation application be affected by the advanced payment and discount on council tax? Is it advisable to repay the advanced payment before I make my naturalisation application?
Thanks in advance
https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit/get ... st-paymentIf you need help to pay your bills or cover other costs while you wait for your first Universal Credit payment, you can apply to get an advance.
The most you can get as an advance is the amount of your first estimated payment.
The 25% discount is for a single person reduction if there is only one person liable for council tax at the property, not becaouse you are a single parent: it's not a public fund. It's Council Tax Reduction that is Public funds.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmI am also in receipt of a 25% discount on council tax as a single parent.
Are you a single parent? Or does your child live with your wife and sometimes stays with you? From your previous thread, you stated that you were no longer with your British citizen wife?tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmMy issue is, I applied for universal credit as a single parent to help rent a two bedroom flat and also advanced payment a few months ago. I was granted advanced payment of about £330 but did not receive universal credit because they deemed my income to be sufficient to pay my rent.
Then you are not a single parent at all as your son lives with his mother. Your claim for Universal Credit should have been made as a single adult.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:44 amI am not a single parent in the sense that my child lives with me. My son lives with his mother and only visits me from time to time.
Benefits don't pay for a bedroom for when your son visits from time to time. Nor could you use your son to iget Universal Credit/ increase a UC payment.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:44 amI made this very clI have not applied nor receive any benefits except universal credit which I applied for in December last year on the basis that I live in a shared accommodation with about 6 other housemates in a 6 bedroom house, earning less than enough to be able to afford a two bedroom house so that my son can visit and sleep over. I gave accurate earnings and my application for UC was under in danger of homelessness.
Did you take an advance payment of UC based on what you put in your claim form, but when the DWP checked it, they found you were not allowed UC as you are a single male who cannot have the 2 bedroom rate or the work allowance?tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmI was granted advanced payment of about £330 but did not receive universal credit because they deemed my income to be sufficient to pay my rent.
As already said, it's not the 25% discount that will be a problem, as long as you live on your own in your home.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:56 amIs the 25% council tax discount not going to be a problem then?
https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/who-has-to-payApply for a discount or exemption
You need to apply for a Council Tax discount or an exemption, even if you’re disregarded.
You’ll get 50% off your bill if everyone living in your household is disregarded.
You’ll get 25% off your bill if you pay Council Tax and either:
you live on your own
everyone else in your home is disregarded
JB007 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:16 pmThen you are not a single parent at all as your son lives with his mother. Your claim for Universal Credit should have been made as a single adult.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:44 amI am not a single parent in the sense that my child lives with me. My son lives with his mother and only visits me from time to time.
Benefits don't pay for a bedroom for when your son visits from time to time. Nor could you use your son to iget Universal Credit/ increase a UC payment.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:44 amI made this very clI have not applied nor receive any benefits except universal credit which I applied for in December last year on the basis that I live in a shared accommodation with about 6 other housemates in a 6 bedroom house, earning less than enough to be able to afford a two bedroom house so that my son can visit and sleep over. I gave accurate earnings and my application for UC was under in danger of homelessness.
As a single person withouit a child, you were only allowed to have the 1 bedroom element of Universal Credit if you are over age 35, as you are a single person fotr benefit purposes. You were not allowed the working element that a parent has, that has a taper on their earnings, as you are not a single parent.The amount of UC for a single person without a child, is very low, which is why many can't have UC as they earn too much.
What do you mean by this?Did you take an advance payment of UC based on what you put in your claim form, but when the DWP checked it, they found you were not allowed UC as you are a single male who cannot have the 2 bedroom rate or the work allowance?tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmI was granted advanced payment of about £330 but did not receive universal credit because they deemed my income to be sufficient to pay my rent.
It was your responsibilty to ensure you claimed as a single person. It was your responsibilty to check that the details were recorded correctly on your online UC account.
tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 3:58 pm
Yes please, I took advance payment based on what I put in my claim and then later on not receive universal credit because they deemed my income sufficient. All I want to do now is pay off the advance payment of about £330, then close my universal credit account. Do you advice this is the best way forward before I put in my application for naturalisation?
Universal Credit is based on your net income, not on what is left after debt payments. Contact a free debt advisor for advice about your debts.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:15 amMy earnings were barely enough to get me by, I had credit card debts and other debts that made it impossible for me to rent a two bedroom flat.
The welfare state will not pay twice for the same child and as you have said, your wife claims the welfare benefits for your child. You are a single adult for benefit purposes.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:15 amI think my application was based on being the other parent and not just a and not just a single parent.
It’s was not overcrowded for you in the HMO, as your son lives with his mother. You are not a single parent.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:15 amOnce a child is above 12 years old or so, it is inappropriate to share the same bedroom with him, and because I lived in a shared accommodation at the time, it will be classified as overcrowded if he visits and sleeps over.
Why wouldn’t you give UC a breakdown of your rent? Although you stated earlier that your UC claim ended as you earned too much.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:15 amAt first, universal credit asked for a complete breakdown of how my rent is used to pay water bills,m internet and rent. I was not able to provide this because in a shared accomodation we payed rent inclusive of all bills, so universal credit were unable to help me with any payments because I could not get a complete breakdown of the rent.
About a month later, I moved into the two bedroom flat.
tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmI applied for universal credit as a single parent to help rent a two bedroom flat and also advanced payment a few months ago. I was granted advanced payment of about £330 but did not receive universal credit because they deemed my income to be sufficient to pay my rent.
UC doesn’t give money to help you rent another property. The claimant needs to provide the signed tenancy agreement of the property they are now living in, which was your HMO (shared accommodation tenancy agreement) to be able to receive the housing element of Universal Credit. You seemd to have provided that to the DWP but didn’t give a breakdown they requested, of what the rent was minus the bills. Then you moved.tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 12:17 pmMy issue is, I applied for universal credit as a single parent to help rent a two bedroom flat an a few months ago. I was granted advanced payment of about £330 but did not receive universal credit because they deemed my income to be sufficient to pay my rent.
tsar_bomb36 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 11:15 amLet me also add that shortly after my UC application, I moved from the multiple shared occupation into a two bedroom flat and also got a second job that pays more.