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Homelessness Application

Homelessness Application - UK Life Advice can assist you and your household with making a homelessness application under Part 7 of the Housing Act, It can guide you through the process and provide assistance including What makes you homeless, Where can you make an application and who can make an application

Homelessness Application - Can I approach any council ('Local Connection')- What areas can you approach and what would happen if it is an area in which you have not established a local connection.

Homelessness Application Stages & Processes (Prevention, Relief & Main Duties) - Assistance wto guide the household through the various stages of the Homelessness Application that include Section 195 Prevention Duty, Section 189B Relief Duty, Section 184 Main Duty Decison and the subsquent Section 193 Main Duty.

 

Homelessness Application - What makes you homeless

You are homeless, if you have been given a notice to vacate you property by your landlord, if the property is no longer medically suitable for you, if you have been made homeless due to a fire or flood, you have been discharge from custodial or hospital without any accommodation to move to, you have been given notice by the Home Office to leave tier accommodation, you are fleeing accommodation as a victim of domestic abuse been excluded by family or friends or property has a significant disrepair making it no longer habitable .

Homelessness Application - Where can you make a application for homelessness

You can make an application for homelessness with your local authority, if you are fleeing due to domestic abuse you can approach any local authority, an application for homelessness can be made at any time (24 hours a da, 365 daya a year)

Homelessness Application - Who can make a homelessness application

Any eligible person can make a homeless application that includes British & Irish National, EEA Nationals with full-settled status or Pre-settled status who are currently employed, Non-EEA Nationals with Leave to Remain and Nationals with special dispenstations (Ukraine Nationals & Afghan Nationals under ARAP and ACAS schemes.

If you do not have a valid immigation status such as those households with student visas or households with no recourse to public funds, you will not be eligible for Homelessness assistance from your local authority.

Only those individuals currently residing with you or who could be reasonably expected to reside with you can be included on your homelessness application.

What UK Life Advice can do for you....

UK Life Advice assist with disputes with the local authority if you are making a homelessness application, if the local authority makes a decision that you are not homeless, or you wish to dispute the issue of eligibility, UK Life Advice can assist you household providing detailed advice and guidance, during ta reassessment or review of you application. A household has the ability to challenge or review any decision during the process of your homelessness application

To ensure you recieve the best advice, guidance and assistance. Please call UK Life Advice on +44 (020) 7187 6467 or +44 7379 409 232 or click here to book a consultation with our specialists advisors
 

 

Can I approach any council ('Local Connection')

Technically you can approach any local authority, however most council will refer you to the local authority in which you have a local connection. To establish local connection the applicant must be living 6 out of the last 12 months or 3 out of the last 5 years in the borough, work in the borough or have a close relative (mother, father, sister, brother or son or daughter) who is residing in the borough and has done for the last 5 years.

Those applicant approaching due to domestic abuse do not have to have a local connection.

What UK Life Advice can do for you....

UK Life Advice assist with disputes with the local authority if you are making a homelessness application, if the local authority makes a decision that you do not have a connection with the borough, UK Life Advice can assist you household providing detailed advice and guidance, during the reassessment or review of you application. A household has the ability to challenge or review any decision during the process of your homelessness application

To ensure you recieve the best advice, guidance and assistance. Please call UK Life Advice on +44 (020) 7187 6467 or +44 7379 409 232 or click here to book a consultation with our specialists advisors
 

 

Homelessness Stages & Processes

Prevention Duty (Section 195) - If you are homeless and eligible (does not need to meet the priority need criteria), the local authority will have a duty to prevent your homelessness. This will usually be the stage in which you are not homeless but threaten with homelessness. The local authority wil be required to carry and assessment of the housheold circumstances and needs and also create a personal housing plan for household that outlines steps that the both the household and local authority will need to step, these steps can include the local authority making steps to negiotate with the landlord, requirements of the household to be looking for accommodaton or steps at looking at alternative accommodation solutions for the household.

Relief Duty (Section 189B) - If the prevention Duty is unsuccessful and you subsquently become homeless or you are homeless when you first approach the local authority, then they will be required to owe your household a duty to resolve your homelessness for 56 days. This will require the local authority to update a previous plan created in the Prvention Stage or carrying and assessment of the housheold circumstances and needs and also create a personal housing plan for household, if there was no previous Preventon Duty. The Relief also only requires the household to be homeless and eligible (does not need to meet the priority need criteria)

MainDuty (Section 189B) - If the Relief Duty expires after 56 days and is unsuccessful, then the local authority is required to make a Section 184 decision on to determine if the household will be awarded a main duty of homelessness. The main duty requires the household to be homeless, eligible, in priority need, not intentionally homeless and have a local connection if not exmepted. Once a main duty is awarded then the council accepts it responsiblities to accommodate the household until its homelessness has been resolved. This main duty can only bne ended by the household securing council or housing association part 6 accommodation, a private rented offer or if the household refuses suitable accommodation offered by the local authority.

What UK Life Advice can do for you....

UK Life Advice assist with disputes with the local authority including the local authority discharging it dutis based on an offer of suitable accommodation, household non-engagemtn with the personal housing plan, a vulnerable client not being in priority need

To ensure you recieve the best advice, guidance and assistance. Please call UK Life Advice on +44 (020) 7187 6467 or +44 7379 409 232 or click here to book a consultation with our specialists advisors