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I had moved into a one-bedroom apartment in London and I had just lived there for a month when I got ill. The landlord was a friend and colleague of mine and we had come to an agreement about the rent and what was and wasn't included but he hadn't given me a tenancy agreement yet. I had asked him about it but he hadn't had the time to put it into writing but he promised I would get it before the end of the month. Short before the end of that month my boss called me asking me when I was coming back to work again. I explained the situation and that I was due to get surgery the following week and that recovery would approximately be 4–6 weeks. She told me she would get someone from an agency to cover for me until I was fully recovered but a few days after the surgery I received a letter from her that since I couldn't give her an exact date for my return to work she had no choice but to let me go. I got in touch with the Citizens Advice Bureau and apparently she was in her right to let me go while I was on sick leave. So I had to apply for benefits until I would be able to look for another job. I told my landlord that I needed the tenancy agreement for my application for housing benefits. He wasn't happy that I was going to apply for benefits but I told him since I wasn't living there for free I had no choice. So reluctantly he said he would have the tenancy agreement ready the following day. And true to his word I got it with the mail the next day. He had added a note that I had to sign one copy and return that to him. Before signing I read it and the first thing I noticed was that instead of the £700 per month we had agreed on he had put in the agreement that the rent was £850 per calendar month. We had also agreed that the rent would be included water and council tax but according to the tenancy agreement the rent was NOT including anything. If I would sign it I would have to pay him £850 per month and I would be responsible for the water and council tax bills. Of course I wasn't going to sign so I called him to let him know. He said that since I was going to apply for housing benefits it wouldn't make a difference for me if the rent was £700 or £850 because the council would pay my rent. I replied that I wasn't going to stay on benefits forever and that if I signed it and then find a new job after recovering I was stuck with the higher rent. He said he would come in the following weekend to discuss the situation with me. I had an appointment at the job centre for my application so I took the unsigned tenancy agreement and told them what the landlord had done. He didn't get the £850 rent he claimed but he made sure the water and council tax bills were signed over to my name. Apparently a landlord can just to that and even though an oral agreement is binding I couldn't prove that those bills were supposed to be included in the rent so I was left responsible for paying those bills.It would soon become clear to me that he was the worst landlord I ever had because things only got worse. It's needless to say our friendship came to an end.

You can claim for Jobseekers Allowance, Housing benefit, Council tax and housing benefit, Council tax benefit and others. To know detailed information on these topics you can go to Taxcredits Benefits Guide website.

You can use NHS once you have registered with your local GP. Apart from that you may not have recourse to welfare benefits. Do you have a specific benefit in mind?14. Can I claim public funds i.e. benefits while in the UK on a Tier 2 visa?No, you will not be eligible for public funds during your time in the UK as a Tier 2 migrant. Public funds are defined as income-related benefits paid by the state. They include income support, income-based job seekers allowance, housing and homelessness assistance, housing and council tax benefit, working families' tax credit, a social fund payment, child benefit and any disability allowance. Benefits paid as a result of your employee contributions whilst working, such as the state pension, are not considered to be public funds. Social housing is not considered to be a public fund either. Claiming public funds when you are not eligible is considered to be benefit fraud and it is a criminal offence.http://www.docs.csg.ed.ac.uk/humanresources/recruitment/immigration/employee_faqs_tier_2_and_tier_5.pdf