Housing and Council Tax Benefits

Housing and Council Tax Benefits are benefits for people with a low income to help towards the cost of their rent and Council Tax.

Claiming benefit

• Can I claim benefit?
• Quick benefit calculator
• How you can claim Housing and/or Council Tax Benefit
• How to fast track your claim
• How much housing and/or council tax benefit will I get?
• Information we need from you
• Local Housing Allowance (LHA)
• Can I claim for two homes?
• How does the amount of savings affect my benefit claim?

Housing and Council Tax Benefits Payments

• How will my benefit be paid?
• Paying housing benefit directly to my landlord
• How can my claim be backdated?
• If you have been overpaid
• What to do if you think we have made a mistake
• In certain circumstances you may be able to get extra help in the form of Discretionary Housing Payment. 

Changes in circumstances

If your circumstances change you need to let us know.

• I have started work
• I am temporarily absent from my home

Information for landlords

If you are a private landlord more information and contact details can be found here

Benefit fraud

You can tell us if someone you know is committing benefit fraud.

Service standards

Find out about our service standards

Contacts

You can contact us in a number of ways.