Help with Housing Costs 2024-2025

The guide combines in one volume the rules about universal credit, housing benefit, state pension credit, support for mortgage interest and council tax rebates. It covers both working age and pension age claims and is designed for easy use by renters, owners, local councils, social landlords, welfare and finance advisers, tribunal members and housing professionals throughout Great Britain. This edition explains the new rules for help with housing costs starting from April 2024. It gives full details for: Who can get universal credit or housing benefit towards rent in social and private housing; How and when people are transferred from housing benefit and other legacy benefits to universal credit; Who can get transitional protection Help for renters, owners and shared owners with service charges; Which payments housing benefit meets for people in supported housing and temporary accommodation; How the local housing allowance works for private renters; The rules about accommodation size