2. Who can get housing benefit?
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2. Who can get housing benefit?
You can get housing benefit if you meet all the following conditions:
    ■you are not excluded from getting housing benefit (see below and Box F.7 );
    ■you are liable to pay rent on your normal home (see 5 below );
    ■with the exception of some people who have reached pension age, you do not have capital of more than £16,000 (see 22 below );
    ■you are on the guarantee credit of pension credit or your income is below a certain level (see 20 and 22 below ); and
    ■you claim and provide the information requested (see 13 below ).
    SSCBA, S.130
Mixed-age couples
New claims – If you are one of a couple and only one of you has reached pension age (see Chapter 42(2) ), a ‘mixed-age couple’, you cannot normally make a new claim for housing benefit. Unless you live in ‘specified’ or ‘temporary’ accommodation (see 1 above ), you must normally claim universal credit instead until the younger partner has also reached pension age, at which point you can claim housing bene
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