Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Local Housing AllowanceLocal Housing Allowance
||LHA is Housing Benefit for people on benefits or low incomes who rent from private landlords. LHA is based on the number of rooms people are allowed and not how much the rent for the property they live in actually is. The number of rooms allowed depends on who lives with the claimant and so depends on the size of their family.
The maximum amount of LHA paid will depend on:
- The number of bedrooms allowed for the claimants family size
- The LHA rate for this number of bedrooms for the area the tenancy is in
The allowances that will be set by The Rent Service each month will be the maximum amounts, the actual amount of entitlement will depend on income, savings and the claimants circumstances. The claim will be based on the LHA rate for the month the claim is made and will be reviewed every year. There are different rates of LHA for different areas. Ashfield has three different LHA areas, these are called Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs)
LHA rates for April 2012 - March 2013
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