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Can you get Housing Benefit?

Information on how Housing Benefit is worked out.

You can only make a new claim for Housing Benefit if you meet one of the following criteria: 

  • You are single and of state pension credit qualifying age, or
  • Part of a couple and are both of state pension credit qualifying age, or
  • Part of a couple and been continuously receiving Pension Credit since at least 14/05/19. Find your State Pension Credit qualifying age Opens in a new window.
  • Live in supported accommodation
  • Have been placed in temporary accommodation by the Local Authority

If not you need to claim Universal Credit Opens in a new window for help with paying your rent.

The amount you get depends on the amount of your rent, whether you rent privately or from a social landlord, and your household income and circumstances.

There are two main types of tenancies

  • Private tenancies 
  • Properties owned by social landlords 
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