Housing Benefit - Current Claim

If anything happens during this time which might affect how much benefit you get, you must tell us immediately.

Changes to the money you get

• you start or stop getting Income Support, Job Seekers Allowanceor Pension Credit
• you start or stop getting Working or Child Tax credits
• the money you or your partner gets increases or decreases
• the money non-dependants get increases or decreases
• there are any other changes in the money people in your home get. For example, someone starts getting Disability Living Allowance

Changes in your home

• you change your address
• the number of people in your home changes - for example, someone has a baby
• a partner comes to live with you
• a partner leaves
• your rent increases or decreases

Other changes

• you, or your partner, go into hospital
• you, or your partner, become a student, or stop being a student
• the amount of savings or capital you have changes