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Chrysalis · 11-10-2016, 13:36

They dont care because on a HB claim the only criteria to check is income and assets. What you spend has no bearing.

However for DHP what you spend is also important as they looking at everything on that as someone at that point is claiming the normal system is insufficient so obviously it needs to be proven the person is in genuine hardship.

For HB I think its fine to not look at outgoings, there needs to be freedom given to people and trust in how they spend their money, remember as well many working people can and do claim HB.

DHP is an entirely different beast tho.

I am editing tho to say one thing, what you spend 'does' have a bearing if they looking at someone who previously had enough savings to not qualify and no longer does, as then they looking at deprivation of assets.

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Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Services: Gig1, Hub 5 Posts: 12,040	Re: The state benefits system mega-thread. Many merged. They dont care because on a HB claim the only criteria to check is income and assets. What you spend has no bearing. However for DHP what you spend is also important as they looking at everything on that as someone at that point is claiming the normal system is insufficient so obviously it needs to be proven the person is in genuine hardship. For HB I think its fine to not look at outgoings, there needs to be freedom given to people and trust in how they spend their money, remember as well many working people can and do claim HB. DHP is an entirely different beast tho. I am editing tho to say one thing, what you spend 'does' have a bearing if they looking at someone who previously had enough savings to not qualify and no longer does, as then they looking at deprivation of assets.