Who can claim housing benefit?
You can claim Housing Benefit to help you pay your rent if any of the following circumstances apply to you:
- you have reached pensionable age (and if you have a partner they have also reached pensionable age or, if your partner is under pensionable age, you are receiving Pension Credit)
- you have been assessed as homeless and placed in temporary accommodation by the Local Authority
- you are living in accommodation where you are provided with more than minimum care, support or supervision and your landlord is an English non-metropolitan county, a DWP funded resettlement hostel, a housing association, a registered charity or a voluntary organisation