Help with Housing Costs 2024-2025: Advising on housing benefit, universal credit and pension credit

Help With Housing Costs is a complete guide to help with housing costs for social tenants, private tenants, and homeowners, and is designed for easy use by renters and homeowners, local authority staff, tribunal members, and welfare and housing advisers.

Formerly published in two volumes, the new 2024/25 edition has been issued as a single volume and contains chapters that cover key benefits and chapters dealing with the needs of particular claimant groups, for example, private renters. Three full chapters are dedicated to benefit calculations, and it includes practical examples and around 100 tables for quick reference.

Included is detailed information about:

• universal credit
• housing benefit
• state pension credit
• support for mortgage interest
• council tax rebates

Help with Housing Costs deals with the basics, like who can get universal credit or housing benefit, and you'll also find information on trickier aspects of housing costs, including topics like:

• migration from housing benefit to universal credit
• help with service charges for renters, owners, and shared owners
• payments for supported and temporary accommodation
• council tax exemptions, discounts, and disability reductions
• housing costs paid directly to landlords and mortgage lenders
• what rules apply to migrants and recent arrivals