Housing Benefit

You can get help to pay your rent. It is called either Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance. It is paid by the council.

You first need to fill in a form.

Rent

You can rent a flat or a house to be your home. This means that you are paying to stay there - you do not own it yourself.

Housing Benefit

You can get help to pay your rent. It is called either Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance. It is paid by the council.

Local Housing Allowance

Local Housing Allowance is for people who rent their home from a private landlord. It is also paid by the council.

You can get the form in one of these ways:

It will be on the council's website so you could print one off,

Or you could phone them and ask them to post you one,

Or you could collect one from the council office.

Council office

This is where your local council is.

The form will ask how much you pay in total rent and service charges and how much money you have coming in.

Total rent and charges

The rent and services charges added up.

When you have filled in the form you take it to the Housing Benefit office at your local council.

If the money you have coming in is not enough, you will get Housing Benefit. The council might pay all of your rent. Or only some of it.

Housing Benefit office

This is where you can go and talk to people about your Housing Benefit.

Housing Benefit

You can get help to pay your rent. It is called either Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance. It is paid by the council.

Housing Benefit

You can get help to pay your rent. It is called either Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance. It is paid by the council.

If you have some money of your own, from wages or savings, Housing Benefit may not pay all your total rent and service charges. It might look like the sum below:

Wages

This is how much you get paid by your employer.

Savings

Money that you put into your bank account and don't spend straight away.

Housing Benefit

You can get help to pay your rent. It is called either Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance. It is paid by the council.

Total rent and charges

The rent and services charges added up.