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Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.
Housing Benefit can help you pay your rent if you’re unemployed, on a low…
You may get help with all or part of your rent. There’s no set amount of…
You’ll need to provide some information and evidence to support your claim…
Housing Benefit is being replaced by Universal Credit. Most people will…
You need to report a change of circumstances for you and anyone else in…
Housing Benefit will not cover heating, hot water, energy or food. If you…
Information about Housing Benefit from your local council - apply to help pay your rent
Universal Credit can include help with housing costs - paying your landlord, what to do if you cannot pay your rent, other help you can get.
If you’re eligible for Universal Credit, you can get an extra amount of…
If you’re eligible for Universal Credit you can get help towards your rent…
If you’re eligible for Universal Credit you can get help paying your rent…
You could get a Universal Credit payment to help you pay for service…
If you already get Universal Credit, apply for support with housing costs…
Contact your local council to appeal against a Housing Benefit decision
This information is for local authority staff who process claims and administer Housing Benefit, including Local Housing Allowance.
This guidance is for local authority staff to process claims and administer Housing Benefit, including Local Housing Allowance.
Statistics on Housing Benefit including the numbers receiving it and the amount received. Includes Council Tax Benefit data to 2013.
Speed of processing is a measure of the average time it takes to process a new Housing Benefit claim or a change of circumstance to an existing Housing Benefit claim.
Adjudication circulars (A circulars) provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
You can continue to get Housing Benefit for 2 weeks after you move to Universal Credit.
How Local Housing Allowance rates are set and used to work out Housing Benefit.
Subsidy (S) circulars are about the money the government pays local authorities to administer Housing Benefit and other financial matters.
Tables showing the method used to produce the Local Housing Allowance rates in accordance with statute.
Statistics and background information on Housing Benefit entitlement reductions identified by local authorities as a proportion of expected reductions.
Housing Benefit (HB) bulletins provide advice, guidance and information on HB to local authority staff.
This collection brings together the most recent editions of HB Direct.
These Housing Benefit (subsidy) Assurance Process modules are for reporting accountants and local authorities to use.
Around 1.6 million private renters are set to receive a substantial boost to their housing support in April, as the Government lays legislation to increase Local Housing Allowance (LHA).
List of rents data used to calculate Local Housing Allowances (LHA).
Statistics on the amount of Housing Benefit that is overpaid to claimants, the overpayments recovered and amounts written off.
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