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Last Updated : 17.10.2008

Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit Leaflets

These are in PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat to be able to download these. Download Adobe Acrobat.

Council Tax leaflet 2007/08 (pdf) This is the leaflet that we send with the Council Tax bills. It gives information on how your Council Tax is spent.

A Guide to Housing Benefit (pdf) - gives information on what is needed to make a claim and how benefit is worked out.

Change in Circumstances (pdf) - gives guidance as to what changes in circumstances you need to tell us about

A Guide for Landlords (pdf) - gives general advice and on what landlords can do to help speed up their tenant's claim for benefit

Making an Appeal (pdf) - what to do if you disagree with a decision we have made

Self-employed (pdf) - advice and information for people who work for themselves

Tackling Fraud (pdf) - how you can report a benefit fraud, types of benefit fraud and what we are doing to prevent fraud.

Second Adult Rebate (pdf) - information if you have someone else living with you who is on a low income

A Guide to Overpayments (pdf) - how to repay an overpayment of benefit

Non-dependants (pdf) - information if you receive benefit and

have someone aged over 18 who lives with you

Non-dependant deductions (pdf) - how much is taken off your benefit if you have someone aged over 18 who lives with you

Absence from home (pdf) - what to tell us if you have to be away from your home

Benefit on Two Homes and Overlapping Liabilities (pdf) - information if you are moving and have to pay rent on two properties