From: Pete 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Housing Benefit
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:28:40 +0000 (UTC)
Originator: peterw@spider.com (Peter Woodhouse)

In article ,
Andy Pandy  wrote:
>
>"Pete"  wrote in message
>news:bu5rj0$5j$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
>> Can anyone give me, or point me at a website, information on Housing
>> Benefit?  Does it still exist these days!?
>>
>
>You could try a web calculator like
>http://www.chestercc.gov.uk/housing-benefit/bencalculator/wbc.htm to see if
>she'd be entitled (the rules are the same country wide so it doesn't matter if
>you're not in Chester).
>
>There are rules about renting from family members, like with children the
>government will happily subside strangers to look after them, but not family. If

Thanks to Jonathan and Andy Pandy.  Exactly what I was looking for.

Pete