How we work out your benefits
- How Housing & Council Tax Benefit is calculated
- Applicable amounts
- Capital
- Income
- Other adults who live with you
- Rent
- The role of the Rent Service
If you pay your rent to a private landlord or housing association we may have to ask the Rent Service to provide us with a rental value for your home.
This will be the figure we use to calculate housing benefit. It may not be the same as the amount you actually pay your landlord.
From April 2008 the Rent Service will be responsible for setting the levels of the local housing allowance, which will be used to calculate the rent level for some private tenants.
About the Rent Service
The Rent Service is an independent organisation and is not part of the council.
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Council Tax & Housing Benefit
- Telephone
- 020 8726 7000
- Fax
- 020 8667 8440
- Croyhben@croydon.gov.uk
- Address
- Municipal Offices, Fell Road, Croydon, CR9 1BQ
