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• Housing Benefit

  Check if you can get Housing Benefit, and what to do if you have any problems.

• Problems with Housing Benefit

  Information about problems with housing benefits. Get help if your benefit is stopped or reduced, challenging a decision and paying back an overpayment.

• Challenging a Housing Benefit decision

  How to appeal if you've been refused Housing Benefit or your payments have been reduced.

• How to claim Housing Benefit

  How to claim Housing Benefit, including if you can backdate your claim. How to claim a Discretionary Housing Payment too.

• Check if the Benefit Cap will affect your Housing Benefit

  Check how much the benefit cap is and whether it will affect your housing benefit. The cap is a limit to the total amount of money you can get.

• If your Housing Benefit is stopped or reduced

  Find out why your Housing Benefit payments have changed and what you can do about it.

• Appealing a Housing Benefit decision at a tribunal

  How to appeal if your local council won’t change a decision about your Housing Benefit.

• Help with your Housing Benefit claim

  Help with your housing benefit claim. Check if you can get housing benefits, how much you can get, if a change affects your claim and how to claim.

• Paying back a Housing Benefit overpayment

  Find out the different ways you can pay back a Housing Benefit overpayment, and what to do if you can’t afford to pay anything at all.

• Check if you can get Housing Benefit

  Check if you can claim Housing Benefit to help pay your rent - and find out if you’re entitled to the maximum amount of Housing Benefit.