Applicable amount

Work out your applicable amount by adding together your personal allowances, premiums and eligible housing costs. Benefit rates are uprated in April each year.1s11 WRWA 2016 It is usually possible to find out the new rates from the beginning of December. Check the DWP website at gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions for a press release on social security uprating. The amounts in this Handbook are from April 2021.