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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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Chapter 21: Housing benefit
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
SECTION F: HELP WITH HOUSING COSTS
Chapter 21: Housing benefit
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Chapter 21: Housing benefit
A. GENERAL CONDITIONS
1. What is housing benefit?
Box F.6: The benefit cap
2. Who can get housing benefit?
Box F.7: Who cannot get housing benefit?
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
9. Local housing allowance
Box F.8: The ‘bedroom tax’
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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Disability Rights UK. "Chapter 21: Housing benefit." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026.
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https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266781CITANCHOR.
Disability Rights UK. "Chapter 21: Housing benefit." In
Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed April 1, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-266781CITANCHOR.
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Disability Rights UK
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Disability Rights Handbook - 2025/26
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May 14, 2025
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