[WillowTheWhisp]

I can't speak from personal experience as I've never had a rented house or housing benefit but I do have a couple of friends who have and their experience has been that they moved out of one and straight into the other (whether ready for habitation or not and if not the repairs have continued after they moved) because the housing benefit would only be paid on one property so as soon as the occupancy of one house started the other one ended and they had to hand over the keys - couldn't go back for mail or anything so had to be sure to get it all redirected.