Help towards your rent
You can apply for housing benefit if you need financial help to pay your rent and:
- are of state pension age (find out more about changes that affect couples where one has reached state pension age and the other has not)
- live in supported accommodation - find out more
- live in temporary homeless accommodation arranged by the council
Use our quick eligibility checker below to see if you are eligible to claim.
Housing benefit eligibility checker
If not, and you need help towards your rent, you will need to:
Please note: Our benefits system is not available between 2am & 2.15am (Monday - Thursdays) and 2am & 4am (early Saturday mornings) to allow for maintenance to take place. Please do not use our benefits system between these times, as you may lose your data. Thank you.