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What is Housing Benefit?

Everything you need to know

Making a new claim

How to make a new Housing Benefit claim and how much you can get

Local Housing Allowance

What is it and how is it calculated

Payment of Housing Benefit

How we make payments of Housing Benefit to you

Opening a basic bank account

Help opening an account for your benefit payments

Backdated claims

Change of address

Use our online form

Changes in your circumstances

Tell us about a change

Discretionary Housing Payments

Housing Benefit overpayments

What to do if we overpay you

Housing Benefit reconsiderations and appeals

Appealing against a decision

Benefit fraud

Benefit fraud hotline information

Local Support for Council Tax

What is it? How to claim. Changes in your circumstances.