Chapter 27: Housing benefit

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A. General conditions

1. What is housing benefit?

. The benefit cap – Box G.6

2. Who can get housing benefit?

. Who cannot get housing benefit? – Box G.7

3. What is rent?

4. Housing costs that housing benefit cannot meet

5. Liability for rent on your normal home

6. Temporary absence

7. Moving home and getting housing benefit on

. two homes

B. Rent restrictions

8. Introduction

. Why housing benefit may not cover all your rent – Box G.8

9. Local housing allowance

. The ‘bedroom tax’ – Box G.9

10. Rent officers’ determinations

11. Exceptions to rent restrictions

12. Ineligible charges

C. Claims, payments & appeals

13. How to claim housing benefit

14. When housing benefit starts, changes and ends

15. How housing benefit is paid

16. Getting more benefit

17. Underpayments

18. Overpayments

19. Challenging decisions

D. Calculating housing benefit

20. How much do you get?

21. Non-dependants

22. Capital

23. Income

24. Applicable amounts

25. Rules for people who have reached pension age

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