The maximum Housing Benefit will be the Local Housing Allowance rate for the number of bedrooms a tenant needs in the Broad Rental Market Area in which they live. The Rent Service will publish new rates of Local Housing Allowance each month. The rate that will apply to tenant’s claims will depend on the date they applied for benefit. This will normally be the date we received the claim form or the date that they first asked to claim Housing Benefit, providing they send the claim form back within one month of this date. It does not matter if the date their Housing Benefit is put into payment is in the next month. Their benefit will still be based on the rate that applied when they claimed.

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