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More Information

More information to help you claim Housing and/or Council Tax Benefits

Benefit guides

in PDF format:

• A guide to Housing Benefit
• A guide to Council Tax Benefit
• How to claim Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
• Discretionary Housing Payments - hep you can get to top up your Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
• Changes you need to tell us about if you are claiming Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit
• How other people in your home affect your Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit
• Can you claim Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit from a date earlier than the date you claimed?
• For people who are away from home - a guide to Housing and Council Tax Benefit
• Students - a guide to Housing and Council Tax Benefit
• People who work - a guide to Housing and Council Tax Benefit
• What happens when you have been paid too much Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit
• A guide for Landlords
• A guide to Appeals

Forms

in PDF format:

• Claim form
• Change of Circumstances claim form
• Earnings Certificate
• Self Employed Earnings certificate
• Non Dependant Earnings certificate
• Verification of Rent form
• List of acceptable evidence for ID