11. Passporting to other benefits
Pension credit
can help meet certain housing costs (see
Chapter 29). You may get housing benefit to help with rent (see
Chapter 27) and help from your local authority towards your council tax (see
Chapter 30). If you get the guarantee credit, you will be passported to full housing benefit and council tax support, and may be entitled to help with health costs, such as free dental treatment (see
Chapter 53), and with hospital travel fares (see
Chapter 57(2)). If you receive either element, you may get help from the social fund (see
Chapter 31), budgeting loans (
Chapter 33(3)) and support for mortgage interest loans (see
Chapter 28).