Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook 2019/20Part 4: General rules for other means-tested benefitsChapter 18: Help with ground rent, service charges and other housing costs 8. Housing costs run-on
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8. Housing costs run-on
When you (or your partner) return to work or increase your hours and so count as being in full-time paid work, you no longer qualify for income support (IS), income-based jobseeker’s allowance (JSA) or income-related employment and support allowance (ESA). However, if you qualify for housing costs run-on, you are paid IS for your housing costs for the first four weeks after you go into full-time paid work, even if the benefit you were claiming was income-based JSA or income-related ESA. Note:
    •You do not have to make a claim to qualify for housing costs run-on; it is paid automatically.1Reg 3(h) SS(C&P) Regs However, you must let the DWP know you are starting full-time paid work.
    •Housing costs run-on is a payment of IS. Therefore:
      ◦it is not taxable;
      ◦it is included in the benefit cap (see here);
      ◦you might get health benefits (see Chapter 31) and education benefits, such as free school lunches (see here).
 
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Who can get housing costs run-on
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