Housing Benefit, Universal Credit and Council Tax Reduction

Universal Credit has now been introduced across Brighton & Hove for people of working age. Find out if you can still apply for Housing Benefit

Find out when you'll get your Housing Benefit if you're a claimant or a landlord, and how we'll pay it to you.

Find out how we use Local Housing Allowance rates to work out your Housing Benefit, and which rate applies to you

Find out which proofs we need to see when you make a new benefit claim, or make changes to your benefit claim

When providing proof to support your benefit claim, it's best to send them to us by email.

Check if you can get a reduction to your Council Tax and apply online.

You need to keep us up to date about changes to your income, rent, the people living with you and other things that affect the benefits you get

Let us know if there are people living with you, as this may change the amount of benefit you get.

If you have health, debt or other problems that make it difficult for you to pay rent to your landlord, you can ask us to pay your Housing Benefit straight to them

Find out about the benefit cap and how it affects you.

Find out what causes a benefit overpayment, and what to do if you get one

If you've been paid too much Housing Benefit, we'll reduce the weekly payments from your current claim until you've paid the money back

Sometimes we can reduce the amount you need to pay back if your details weren't up to date at the time of the overpayment