Housing Benefit

Help with paying the rent for your home

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Housing benefit - home visits

Would you like help or advice about claiming Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Benefit? If you can’t come and see us at our offices, we can visit you in your own home.
Local Housing Allowance (LHA)

New Housing Benefit legislation which will affect tenants in private rented accommodation due to take effect from April 2008.
Housing benefit - new claim

Information about how to apply for Housing benefit
Housing benefit - backdating claims

Housing Benefit is normally awarded from the Monday after the day you made your claim. Sometimes we can pay benefit from an earlier date if you have a good reason for not claiming sooner.
Housing benefit - appeals

After you have made your claim for benefit, you will receive a ‘decision notice’. If you think a decision we have made about your Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit is wrong, the following information explains what you can do about it.
Housing benefit - current claim

When you made a claim for Housing Benefit you signed a declaration that said you would let us know in writing about any change of circumstance for you or anyone living with you that could affect your claim. This page explains what you should do if you think there has been a change of circumstance in your home.
Housing benefit - overpayments

If you receive an overpayment of benefit, in most cases you will have to pay the money back. This page explains how you may have been overpaid, whether you have to repay the benefit money and how you can pay it back.