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Online Housing Benefits Calculator

Remember this calculation is an estimate based on the information you supply. For a full evaluation make a formal claim asap. Usually Benefit will only start from the Monday after the Council receive your form.
Step 1

Rent and LHA details for a Housing Benefit Claim
(skip this step if you just want help with your Council Tax bill)

(Warning - excessive amounts may be restricted for claim purposes).

Do not include charges for ineligible services such as meals and heating unless you will come under the Local Housing Allowance rules (see below)
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Step 2

Requests your Council Tax details
(skip this stage if you do not want help with your Council Tax bill)

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Step 3

Requests some General Information about you

If "Yes" to this question you can skip all the income questions (steps 7 to 11) because your income is assumed to be zero.

Step 4

Looks for claimant (and partner) disability or carer details (if any)
Otherwise skip this block

  • Do you get Attendance Allowance, Constant Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Invalid Vehicle Scheme or Motability, War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement, Severe Disablement Allowance, Incapacity Benefit (and you are the claimant, who is sick and incapable of work for at least 52 weeks)?
  • Are you registered blind (or have regained your sight in the last 28 weeks)?
  • (1) You (and partner) get care component of Disabilty Living Allowance (middle/high rate) or Attendance Allowance or Constant Attendance Allowance (or partner blind and you get one)
  • (2) No other adult lives in your home except your partner, other than disabled persons, your carer, landlord or other tenants.
Step 5

Requests your children and young persons (under 19) for whom child benefit is paid.

Step 6

Requests details for single lone parents only - otherwise skip this step

Step 7

Requests your earnings details
skip to step 12 if you are on Income Support, IS/JSA or PGC

Give figures for the claimant (and partner).
Include average earnings from employment and self employment.
Be sure to enter weekly figures in the Weekly column only and Monthly figures in the Monthly column only. £ Weekly £ Monthly


Step 8

Requests your Unearned income figures for you (and your partner).
Please make them weekly.

- (automatically calculated)  
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We do not count War Pensions, charitable payments or payments made as a result of personal injury as income. So do not enter them below.  
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Step 9

Requests your Savings, Investments and other assets
(claimant and partner).

You cannot qualify for any Housing Benefit or (most) Council Tax Benefit if you and any partner have £16,000 or more in savings and investments. The home you live in and personal possessions do not count.  
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Step 10

Requests your eligible childcare charges
(up to £175 p/w for 1 child or £300 for more) and student expenses.

Charges for registered or approved charges can be deducted from the income of couples or lone parents in remunerative work (at least 16 hours p/w) or on Statutory Sick, Maternity, Paternity or Adoption Pay or a similar benefit (up to 28 weeks). Couples still qualify if one works and the partner is incapacitated, in hospital or prison. Costs of childcare in the child's own home by a close relative are excluded.  
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Step 11

Looks for Tax and Pension Credits
Income for (nearly) everyone from the Government! They get added to claim income.

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Otherwise, let this program do an estimate - based on the information you have already supplied. The result may not be fully accurate - but it will be very close. Our estimate might just need to know these extra details....  
Step 12

Looks for other adults who live with you but pay no rent
(often grown-up children)

These so called "non-dependants" are assumed to be contributing to the household income so a deduction is made from any benefit for each one. Partners, students and most persons on IS do not count. Skip this step if you (or your partner) is disabled due to blindness, or in receipt of the Disability Living Allowance care component (highest or middle rates) or Attendance Allowance has been awarded.  
Calculate
Click and let the program work it out
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How your benefit is worked out. If the Total Applicable Amount is higher than Net Weekly Income, Maximum Benefit is awarded. But if Net Weekly Income is higher than the Total Applicable Amount, 65% of the "excess income" is deducted from Maximum HB to find the award. For Council Tax Benefit, 20% of the "excess income" taper is deducted from the maximum award. NB Non-dependant deductions are also taken off at this stage.
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Alternative Council Tax Benefit is often called Second Adult Rebate. It is based on the income of the non-dependants. The program calculates if you are better off with a benefit award based on your circumstances or your non-dependants.
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And finally you can use the browser Print button to launch a print or change your figures to calculate again or the whole lot.
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