There are companies who now offer to buy your house off you and then allow you to rent it back from them.
The housing benefit regulations state that you cannot claim housing benefit for a property that you have owned in the last five five years.
However, if you can prove that you could no longer afford to keep up with the mortgage repayments and your home would have been repossessed and you can provide proof of this, for example a letter from the bank, we can consider housing benefit.
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