Bessie J

👉🏽 Important change

If an adult friend or relative lives in your home, the DWP usually expects them to pay something towards your rent.

This means money is taken out of your universal credit housing element.

The DWP calls adults who live with you ‘non dependants’.

From this month (April), your universal credit housing element will go down by £93.02 for every non dependant adult who lives with you.

Your universal credit is reduced even if the person does not pay anything to live in your home.

Read our advice to find out more about:

🔹 who counts as a non dependant

🔹 when the DWP should not reduce your universal credit

👉🏾 https://shltr.org.uk/Sfmyn