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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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Chapter 20: Universal credit housing costs amount
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
SECTION F: HELP WITH HOUSING COSTS
Chapter 20: Universal credit housing costs amount
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Chapter 20: Universal credit housing costs amount
A. COMMON RULES
1. Introduction
2. When can the amount be included in your award?
3. Liable to pay rent or service charges
Box F.1: Who cannot get the housing costs amount?
4. Occupying accommodation
Box F.2: Treated as occupying accommodation
5. Service charge payments
Box F.3: Service charge payment categories
6. Ineligible service charge payments
B. HOUSING COSTS AMOUNT FOR RENTERS
7. Rent
8. Periods of payment
9. The size criteria
Box F.4: The size criteria: absences from home
10. Non-dependant deductions
11. Calculations involving two homes
12. Calculating the amount: private sector
13. Core rent
14. Cap rent
Box F.5: Exceptions to the shared accommodation rule
15. Calculating the amount: social rented sector
16. The calculation: joint tenants
17. Excessive payments
C. HOUSING COSTS AMOUNT FOR OWNER-OCCUPIERS
18. What are owner-occupier payments?
19. When you cannot get the housing costs amount
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Disability Rights UK. "Chapter 20: Universal credit housing costs amount." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026.
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https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266758CITANCHOR.
Disability Rights UK. "Chapter 20: Universal credit housing costs amount." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266758CITANCHOR.
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Disability Rights UK
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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