About Benefits
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Housing Benefits and Council Tax Benefits
Benefits and rebates can be claimed if you or other people in your home are on low incomes, even if you are self-employed. The amount of benefit you will get will depend on your income, savings, and p...
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Claiming housing benefit and council tax benefit
Benefits and rebates can be claimed if you or other people living in your home are on low incomes. This includes people who are employed or self-employed. The amount of benefit you will get will depen...
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Discretionary Housing Payments
Discretionary Housing Payments allow us to make additional payments to people who receive housing and/or council tax benefit who appear to need further help with their rent and/or council tax payments...
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Overpayments
An overpayment is an amount of benefit that we have paid to someone when they are not entitled to it, under the benefit rules. It can happen for both housing and council tax benefit. This page shows s...
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Online Benefits Calculator
Find out what you are eligible for using the Direct Gov online benefits calculator.
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April 2011 - Housing and Council Tax Benefit changes