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Housing Benefit WHAT WE DO WHEN WE HAVE DETAILS People not on Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s ABOUT YOUR INCOME AND SAVINGS Allowance or income-related Employment and Support When we have information about your (and your partner’s) Allowance. income and savings, we work out your ‘applicable amount’. We will pay benefit in the same way as above, less 65% of the This is an amount that the Government give us that they amount by which your income (after deductions such as tax think you will need to live off for a week. They base this and National Insurance) goes over the ‘applicable amount’. amount on the ages and circumstances of you, your partner and any children in your household. They review these UNIVERSAL CREDIT HOUSING amounts every April. If you are eligible for Universal Credit (for help with your rent) you will not be entitled to Housing Benefit. WORKING OUT THE BENEFIT YOU WILL RECEIVE EACH WEEK WHEN DOES MY BENEFIT APPLY FROM? Benefit usually applies from the Monday after the date we BENEFIT Your Housing Benefit will be subject to the Benefit Cap. The Government introduced a ‘cap’ on the total amount of receive your claim form. benefits to which working-age people can be entitled. PAYING YOUR HOUSING BENEFIT for people of The level of the cap is: If you are a council tenant we will pay your benefit direct • £384.62 per week for couples (with or without children) to your rent account. If you are a tenant of a housing working age and lone parents association we will normally pay direct to your landlord, we pay every four weeks for the four weeks already passed. • £257.69 per week for single adults. Households that meet the qualifying criteria for Working Tax If we pay you, we will pay benefit into your bank account by Credit will be exempt from the cap to ensure that someone in bank transfer (BACS). We pay every two weeks for the two work will be better off than if they were on benefits. weeks already passed. Other households that are not affected by the cap are DISCRETIONARY HOUSING PAYMENTS (DHPs) where a member of the household (a single adult or couple If Housing Benefit does not cover all of your eligible rent, and any child for whom that adult or couple are treated as you can ask us for more help. We may be able to pay you responsible for when calculating the Housing Benefit award) Discretionary Housing Payments on top of your Housing qualifies for; Benefit. There are rules about who can receive DHPs. To make a claim access your council’s website or contact the • Disability Living Allowance; Personal Independence Benefits Service. Payment; Attendance Allowance; Industrial Injuries Benefits, Employment and Support Allowance, if paid with INFORMATION AVAILABLE ONLINE the support component; Armed Forces Compensation Further information regarding Housing Benefit is available on Scheme Payment; Armed Forces Independence Payment; your council’s website. War Pensions Scheme Payments; Carer’s Allowance; You can get an estimate of potential Housing Benefit Guardian Allowance. entitlement using the benefit calculators available online If a ‘cap’ has to be applied the Department for Work and either by accessing your council’s website or online through Pensions will write to the Local Authority instructing that the https://www.gov.uk/benefits-calculators ‘cap’ should be applied to the Housing Benefit award. The Local Authority will notify the claimant in writing if the ‘cap’ WHO TO CONTACT has to be applied to the Housing Benefit award detailing For more information or if you have any questions, please the reduced Housing Benefit entitlement. Housing Benefit contact your local Benefits Office. cannot be reduced below the minimum award of 50 pence Telephone: 0345 034 4569 per week. Email: [email protected] People on Income Support, income-based Jobseeker’s Postal address: Stour Valley & Poole Partnership, Allowance or income-related Employment and Support PO Box 722, Poole, BH15 2YE Allowance You may get Independent Advice from the Citizens Advice You will receive the maximum benefit, subject to non- Bureau; To speak to an assessor at Dorset Adviceline please dependants deduction, the benefit cap and bedroom phone 0344 245 1291 this line is open Monday to Friday calculation. 10am - 4pm. We have tried our best to make sure the details given in this leaflet are correct. January 2019 However, this information is not a statement of law and is a guide only. This leaflet is intended for people of working age. A What do you need to work out my benefit? rate care component of Disability Living Allowance, higher separate leaflet is available for people who have attained the About your rent - we need to know who your landlord is and rate Attendance Allowance, the daily living component qualifying age for Pension Credit, as there are different rules. information about the rent you pay. (Your landlord does not of Personal Independence Payment or Armed Forces need to know you are receiving benefit if you do not want Independence Payment. UNIVERSAL CREDIT them to know.) Instead of Housing Benefit you might be entitled to claim The eligible amount will be reduced by 14% if you under- Universal Credit for help with your rent. You can check this If you pay rent to a housing association, your council or any occupy by 1 bedroom or 25% if you under-occupy by 2 online at www.gov.uk/universal-credit/eligibility other registered social landlord, we will work out your benefit bedrooms or more. using the rent you pay. This will be reduced if your property If you are eligible to claim Universal Credit for help with Shared Ownership properties and Supported has more bedrooms than are necessary for your household. housing costs, you will not be eligible to claim Housing Accommodation (accommodation provided by the County Benefit. One bedroom is allowed for: Council, a housing association, a registered charity or • every adult couple (married or unmarried) voluntary organisation where that body or a person acting WHO CAN CLAIM HOUSING BENEFIT? on its behalf also provides the claimant with care, support • any other adult aged 16 or over If you are a private tenant, housing association tenant or or supervision as set out in paragraph 4 of schedule 3 to the council tenant you may qualify for Housing Benefit, which • two children of the same sex under 16 Consequential Provisions Regulations 2006) are not subject is a means-tested benefit. To claim, apply online on your • two children aged under 10 to this restriction. council’s website or contact your local council. (If you are • any other child (other than a child whose main home is When working out your benefit, we do not count any ‘extras’ a private tenant, we will work out your Housing Benefit elsewhere) (ineligible charges) included in your rent, such as heating, according to the Local Housing Allowance.) • a foster child or children living with an approved foster water or sewerage. Some people cannot claim Housing Benefit, for example carer (or up to 52 consecutive weeks from the date of the If you are a private tenant, we will work out your benefit using most full-time students, people living with a close relative, last placement or approval) the Local Housing Allowance rules. This usually means you crown tenants and care or nursing home residents or • adult children in the armed forces away from home on will receive a certain amount or rate of Housing Benefit that Universal Credit recipients in receipt of Housing Element operations is based on the area you live in, the size of your household LETTING YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR CLAIM • a carer (or team of carers) who do not live with you but and whether you are single and aged under 35. If your rent We must: provide you or your partner with overnight care. is less than the Local Housing Allowance for your area, we • let you know our decision on your Housing Benefit claim; • a child who cannot share a bedroom is entitled to the care must reduce the allowance. • if you ask us, give you a written statement of how we component of disability living allowance at the highest About your income - we need to know your (and your worked out your Housing Benefit; or middle rate and the Local Authority is satisfied is, by partner’s) income after tax, National Insurance and half of virtue of the child’s disability is not reasonably able to • look at our decision again if you disagree with it; and any pension contributions, plus other income such as tax share a bedroom with another child. credits, benefits and allowances. • explain your rights of appeal to an independent • From 1 April 2017, a disabled child or adult non- tribunal service. Who lives with you - we need to know about the people who dependant who requires and has overnight care on a live with you such as your partner, children and any other HOW TO CLAIM HOUSING BENEFIT regular basis from a non-resident carer (or team of adults who are not financially dependent on you (we call People making a claim for Income Support, income-based carers). An additional bedroom will be allowed when the them ‘non-dependants’). Jobseeker’s Allowance or income-related Employment claimant is able to demonstrate that - care has been About non-dependants who live with you - If there are other Support Allowance. arranged, a spare bedroom is available for the carer (or adults in your household we normally reduce your benefit. If you have not applied for Housing Benefit before, you will team of carers) and an extra bedroom has not already This is because we expect these other adults to contribute need to call Jobcentre Plus on 0800 055 6688.
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