Accommodation Supplement

i applied and got declined as i didnt earn enough.
and some bull story about my income (being my living costs that go onto my student loan so not real income as they finished in november and only restart at the end of this month) is too high as it leaves me with $36 for me to spend after ive paid for all my bills but they didnt care that with that $36 i had to pay life insurance, and food and buy soy milk at like $3 a litre

when i applied my income was my student loan which isnt real income if that makes sense, so they said its not enough to qualify. and then turned around and said but i get enough from that to live off so i still dont qualify.

I'd love to know how $163 a week is enought to live off.
Bearing in mind DP's income is the mortgage and the majority of the bills

its in his name only.
and they don't deem us as in a relationship as he does not support me financially (as he cant as his income goes to the mortgage).
and he cant get it either as they deem him as earning too much becasue we have a flatmate who pays him $90 a week...and that puts him over the limit by $50.
im sure they do it to screw people over

out of my 163 a week i pay 130 a week board.
it covers 90 rent and 40 that does towards the bills and groceries.
our flatmate pays this too.

winz see us paying him as income and it puts him over the limit.
if he said we dont pay him it works but as winz know what he was getting if he suddenly gets $260 a week less they will know exactly how he has made that happen

nope none. i've tried everything.
im just glad the bank lets me have an overdraft

Before moving home I got one, I was entiled to $40 odd a week.
Now that I'm home I don't need it and so didn't apply for it.
I'm on the DPB now, so depending on the price of rent etc when I do move out I will get it again..
Sometimes it mightn't be much, but it's something.

Suck that you & your DP don't qualify Mucky_Tiger. In my place where I got said $40 odd I was paying very similar to you. $160p/w - $90 rent, $20 power, phone & $50 groceries..I was on the sickness benefit however. Strange. Have you phoned and spoken to someone about all your living costs etc? Maybe you're entitled to a temporary additional support or something? If your last $$ is paying another bill surely they can help in some way?

Winz don't count board as income. So if the flatmate is paying board and not rent this shouldn't affect it.

We don't qualify for the accommodation supplement because we have savings, according to the online calculator. Stink coz would be nice to get a bit more for week to week stuff without having to dip into savings...

We get about $90 p/week (not including the $20p/w they take from my half to pay back an old loan, but last payment next week, yippee!!) and some weeks that money has meant we've been able to pay a bill or even just buy essentials that we forgot we needed when I did the groceries (my WFF money covers groceries, and leaves me with F all for much else)

I was under the impression that if the boarder pays more than $80 p/w then it affects any entitlement?? When i was boarding with my friends mum a few years back, she was charging me $70 p/w to get around that 'rule' and I got $10p/w in acccom supplement lol (giving me a grand total of $130p/w on unemployment while trying to sort custody of DS out). If you're paying board rather than rent, they will take a % of what you are paying, call that your 'rent' and base the entitlement on that, rather than the whole amount. If that portion is less than a certain % of your whole income, then you wouldnt qualify as you are seen to be earning enough to cover living expenses.