Housing Benefit can cover or pay towards your rent.

Council Tax Benefit can cover or pay towards your Council Tax bill.

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Information for landlords whose tenants may be able to claim housing benefit.

Information about applying for benefit for a period before you completed your application.

Information on claiming Housing and Council Tax Benefit.

Information about how your child-care costs may affect your entitlement to Housing and Council Tax Benefit.

What do I need to do if I am receiving benefits but my circumstances have changed?

Information about when you might qualify for an extended benefit payment.

Information about what you need to provide when claiming Housing and Council Tax Benefit if you are self-employed.

Further information on how the people who live with you but are not financially dependant on you affect your entitelment to benefit.

The conditions that are needed to claim benefit on more than one property at the same time.

What should you do if you are going to be absent from a property that you are receiving benefit for?

Who can we talk to about your benefit claim?

After you have been awarded Housing and/or Council Tax Benefit but still cannot afford your rent or council tax you may apply for a Discretionary Housing Payment.

What happens if you have been overpaid benefit?

What is going to be changing in Housing Benefits from April 2008?