Reply To: Can a joint tenant be treated as a non-dep?

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Peter Barker
Keymaster

I’d say probably not, as I don’t think Reg 9910(g) applies to someone until you’ve made a decision to that effect – the idea is to ensure the decisions on the original tenant’s HB and the ex-non-dep’s HB are consistent with one another. Moreover, looks like you would not have applied Reg 9(1)(g) on the facts anyway. Therefore the daughter cannot be a non dep.

That leaves you with one club: apportioning the rent to achieve whatever outcome seems fairest. I’d suggest apportioning it in a way that leaves HB falling short of the full rent by the amount of the non-dep deduction that would have applied otherwise.