Why Do This Course?
If you are on a low income you can get help with your rent through Housing Benefit or Universal Credit. This course shows you how.
It covers bedroom tax, local housing allowance, the effects of work, and housing benefit for supported accommodation and refuges.
It shows why someone gets the amount they get; it includes the rules about overlaps and absences, and deals with some problem areas of administration.
By doing the course you will:
- Know which benefit to claim HB or UC
- Understand the factors that affect how much benefit is paid for rent
- Understand the rules about absences and overlaps
- Know about many common problems and some solutions
Content
- Which benefit? HB or UC?
- Private renter or social renter?
- How many bedrooms do you need?
- What counts as a bedroom?
- Non-dependants who live with you.
- Links between HB and DWP benefits
- Income and HB
- HB for working residents in hostels, refuges and supported accommodation
- Overlaps and absences
- HB suspensions
- Changes in circumstances