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Benefits, Payments and Claims

View Benefits Account

See details of your housing benefit or council tax support claim

How to Claim

How to claim Council Tax Support or help towards your rent

Report Change of Circumstance

What changes you need to tell us about, and how to do so

Backdated Claims

How to make a backdated claim for Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support

Appeals

How to appeal against a benefit decision

Overpayments

What benefit overpayments are, and how we recover them

Council Tax Support

What Council Tax Support is, and how to claim it

Housing Benefit

How Universal Credit is changing access to Housing Benefit

Pension Credit

Information and support for pensioners eligible for the government's pension credit

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