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Hi, I am trying to get a hous of my ow. I have been on the Margaret Blackwood waiting list for 3 years. 2 weeks ago I got offered a house but I didn't hear anything from them so I phoned thm yeserday. Now they said I am to young for shelltered houing. I am 28years old. Nw the next thing is General housing for 16 years olds and older but wha is it Does anyone know?
Have you tried Places For People? They offer quite a wide range of housing options. from sheltered accomodation to well, standard accomodation to let or on the market. I'm sure they'd say you weren't too old for them to help. My best friend from School and her fiance just got their first rented flat together in, oo, think it was April this year. Let's just say for the sake of privacy, rent is under £500 a month and you can also apply for housing benefits to help you in relation to paying rent if you choose to go down that route. I've just run in to my first snag with housing benefit however. I put a request in for an application form online last week, then last night I was checking out housing benefits myself and apparently, you're not entitled to them if your savings are over a £16000 limit as mine certainly will be by the time Places For People have found somewhere for me up in Nottingham near several friends I made while I was at School in the midlands.
You see, we've just invested in a house my Aunt's partner who's a builder and his team're working on near my Grandparents. For the sake of privacy again, well, it is two thirds over the limits allowed if I wish to apply for housing benefit so all my savings don't become dead money unless my being registered blind, the fact that I apply for incapacity and Disability living allowance benefits and the fact that I'm also disabled would entitle me to housing benefit anyway.
Could anybody else living in the UK please, help me or even come up with the answers? I don't know about Michelle and her circumstances, but it could help both of us in the long run.
Places For People.
http://www.placesforpeople.co.uk
Thank you, I will ookat that website.
if you have over sixteen grand, you cannot get income support, so housing benifit won't come either. i am in a similar situation to yourself, though mine is in stocks. hth. it seems you save, you make yourself better today, you get shit all from this fucking govt.
and being registered blind will only get you non means tested parts of any benifits too if you have savings or investments over sixteen grand.they check everything these days.
try this link for general info. yes you are able to get IS if you are blind in the UK, but if you have savings over sixteen grand, you can't get it.
http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/WorkingAgeBenefits/Dev_015271.xml.html
That's all very well, but let's just say, you can't get a flat in the area I'm considering for less than £64000. Let's just say I need £10000 plus to be able to put a decent deposit down or even buy one, but that would blow my savings. I'd rather rent if I can then eventually buy a house with my savings, if and when I have a job.
I said in post 2 I was well over the limits as far as housing benefits're concerned.
Jen.
O yeah. Currently, I don't work so of course, I'm on Disability Living Allowance and Incapacity benefits, but income's still quite low. We've tried practically everything to get me in to work in Surrey. The local association for the blind (SAVI) have turned out to be a load of jumped up useless blithering idiots who basically don't want to help, they prefer to hinder your attempts to lead independent lives, find jobs, even get out of the house by yourself which is why I'm practically housebound, although mum's offered to teach me herself, but I'm forever telling her I need somebody who's actually quallified, who's not totally stupid about me crossing the road on my own and who'll just let me loose basically, so I can make my own way either, down the shop, to the train station, to my Grandparents who live just over the other side of our hill 4 streets away, even walking in to town, where there's nothing much but a few essential high street shops, mostly coffee shops, a rubbish Smiths, Pizza hut and all the other usuals.
This is why I'm desperate to get shot of Surrey for good. I'm also desperate, well, to find a way of losing some of my savings, hopefully not long-term so I can move in to rented accomodation elsewhere then buy my dream pad later on. Would an off shore account work?
Jen.
I'll try reinvesting this money, see if that works. I was talking it over with mum earlier when funnily enough, that was partly what we hoped our local RNIB employment adviser would sort out for us this morning and she did in a way.
Jen.
Places for people paperwork arived here in the post today. Roll on Notts.
Jen.