Paid too much rent?

I am a renting a private house and claim housing benefit I have lived in this house since November 2006. My rent is 拢525 which is due on the 3rd of each month. The housing benefit pay 拢93 a week every 4 weeks and I pay 拢153 every calander month, I went into the housing office the other day and they told me that because my benefit gets paid every 4 weeks, my landlord receives 13 cheques over a 12 month period, so she worked it out for me over a 12 month period and the shortfall that I have to pay is actually only 拢122 a month, so I have paid 拢271 too much rent since I moved. Can I get this back off my landlord and tell him from now on i'm only paying 拢122 a month.

In exactly the same way you just told us!

yup tell them exactly what you just told us! maybe get something from the housing office to take with you to the landlord? good luck

just tell him straight like you have us if he is a decent landlord he will agree with you and draw up a new tenancy agreement hope you get it sorted good luck

Explain civilly to your landlord the anomily with the rent and suggest that you miss your payment next month,deduct the rest from the month after and then pay the correct amount from then on.This will satisfy both and get it satisfactorally sorted out.One thing a landlord hates is to actually have to pay you anything!!

Of course you can. Give him a ring or better still, put these facts in a letter so you have proof you've told him. You should get him to refund your already overpaid rent and then amend your payments accordingly. It would be unreasonable of him to expect anything other than this.

Your rent is 525 a month. The council pays 372 of it per month. Am I right so far? So that leaves 153 a month that you are supposed to pay yourself. You said you pay 153 every month also. No one has been over paid. Its a monthly contract not a weekly one. They pay it once a month (every 4 weeks), you pay once a month (every 4 weeks). Soooo the answer is NO. You owe him the 153 a month each month. They send 13 checks in 12 months. One of those checks is in advance of rent for that month. You still owe your money.