Chapter 19: Housing benefit rent restrictions
This chapter covers:
1. How to use this chapter (
here)
2. The local housing allowance rules (
here)
3. The social sector rules: the ‘bedroom tax’ (
here)
4. Hostels, houseboats, mobile homes, caravans and boarders (
here)
5. Exempt accommodation and claimants: the old scheme rules (
here)
7. Delaying a rent restriction (
here)
8. Challenging a rent restriction (
here)
This chapter covers the rent restriction rules for housing benefit. The rent restriction rules for the universal credit housing costs element are covered in Chapter
6.