Help with your rent
If you need financial help to pay your rent, you need to apply for either universal credit or housing benefit:
Apply to us for housing benefit if:
- You 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)
- You live in supported accommodation - find out more
- You live in temporary council homeless accommodation
- You already receive a severe disability premium in your income support, income-related employment and support allowance, income-based jobseekers allowance or housing benefit – find out more
- You can apply for help towards your council tax at the same time.
- Read our privacy notice
Apply to the government for universal credit if:
You should apply to the government for universal credit if you answered no to all of the above.
If you would also like help towards your council tax bill, you will also need to apply to us for local council tax support. Read our privacy notice
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.