Subjects:

Housing Law, Social Security and Welfare Law

Contents:

Introduction

Who is entitled to benefit?

Occupying the home, absences and moves

The claimant’

s household

Making a claim

Referrals to the rent officer, etc

Calculating HB and the main CTB

Second adult rebate

Eligible council tax

Eligible rent

Help with rates in Northern Ireland

Applicable amounts

Income and capital

Employed earners

The self employed

Decisions, notices and payment

Changes to entitlement

Overpayments

Appeals

Recent Migrants

Students

Discretionary housing payments, local schemes, pilots and pathfinders

Subsidy

Appendices

Main and recent regulations, orders and rules

Table of cases

Recent HB and circulars

HB and CTB figures (from April 2006)

Other benefit rates (from April 2006)

Categories of people for non-dependant deduction and second adult rebate purposes

Third party payments of IS etc to a landlord

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This ever popular Guide provides full coverage of the housing benefit and council tax benefit schemes throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland, including the local housing allowance and direct payment reforms operating in the pathfinder areas. It has many practical examples and useful tables and is used by benefit assessors, tribunal members, advisers, claimants, landlords and housing professionals as their primary reference source.

This edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate all the changes over the past year, including references to the new consolidated housing benefit and council tax benefit regulations and the April 2006 up-rating. New items include:-

• All the changes arising from the Civil Partnerships Act 2004
• The new right to reside test for European Nationals from 30 April 2004
• When landlords are required to repay overpayments
• The rules for on-line and telephone claims;
• How the start date of benefit is worked out;
• The procedures for suspending and superseding awards of benefit;
• The calculation of eligible rent for people moving home.