How and when we pay your 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.

If you're a claimant

We'll pay your Housing Benefit into your bank account every two weeks.

This needs to be an account with a high street bank. We can't pay into a Post Office account like some other benefits.

You must then make sure you pay your rent to your landlord.

In some circumstances we can arrange to pay your Housing Benefit straight to your landlord.

If you're a landlord

You'll get your payment schedule posted to you within two working days after a Housing Benefit payment date.

Contact us at housing.benefits@brighton-hove.gov.uk if you'd rather get your payment schedule by email.

If we've arranged to pay a tenant's Housing Benefit straight to you, we'll pay it into your bank account every four weeks in arrears.

If a tenant is over eight weeks behind on their rent, contact us to let us know. You'll need to tell us what they owe and the dates the debt covers.

Remember that the tenant can ask to return to receiving their benefit, rather than it going straight to you.. We'll write to you in advance to let you know they want to do this.

Payment dates for 2023 to 2024

This table shows the dates we'll pay Housing Benefit to claimants and landlords.

Month

Year

Payment days to claimants

Payment days to landlords

April

2023

3, 17 and 28

17

May

2023

15 and 26

15

June

2023

12 and 26

12

July

2023

10 and 24

10

August 

2023

7 and 21

7

September

2023

4 and 18

4

October

2023

2, 16 and 30

2 and 30

November

2023

13 and 27

27

December

2023

11 and 22

22

January

2024

8 and 22

22

February

2024

5 and 19

19

March

2024

4 and 18

18