Help with Housing Costs: Volume 2: Guide to Housing Benefit, 2022-23

This volume in the Help with Housing Costs series covers the rules for housing benefit for rent payments across the United Kingdom. It also covers help for people on pension credit who are homeowners or long leaseholders with ground rent, service charge and certain other payments. It is designed to complement volume 1 which covers universal credit, council tax and rate rebates and certain matters common to housing benefit and universal credit, including appeal tribunals and the rules about migrants and recent arrivals. Building on the strong reputation of its predecessor - Guide to Housing Benefit - for clear, impartial and accurate advice, it is designed for use by local councils, social landlords, advisers, tribunal members, housing professionals and tenants. The Guide to Housing Benefit is written in a refreshing plain English style that makes it easy to use, while retaining many of the features of its predecessor that readers will find reassuringly familiar. It contains many practical examples and over 80 useful tables for quick reference. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate all the changes over the past year, including the April 2022 uprating.