Housing Benefit Clam Form And Council Tax Reduction Page 40

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Telling us about changes - Please keep this note
If you are getting Housing Benefit and you are
in case you need to refer to it.
not a tenant of Newham Council you also need
to tell us about changes affecting:
You must tell us in writing about changes you think
- your rent
might affect your Housing Benefit or Council Tax
- any service charges in your rent
Reduction, even if we have not yet decided your
- your tenancy agreement with your landlord.
claim.
Send your letter about the change to: Newham
People on Pension Credit do not need to tell us
Council Tax and Benefits Service,
about changes in income or changes in their
PO Box 23504, London E15 4UU.
savings or investments, unless they go above
£16,000.
We need to know about:
- a change in your address, even a temporary one
You need to tell us about changes straightaway,
like going away for a while
otherwise you may have to repay a Housing
- someone joining your household or moving out
Benefit overpayment or you may have trouble
- your income going up or down, or the income of
budgeting towards your Council Tax payments.
someone living in your household going up or
down
If you do not tell us within a month about a
- your income changing, for example if you start
change affecting your Housing Benefit, you may
work or you stop or start getting a social security
lose benefit. If you do not tell us within 21 days
benefit
about a change affecting your Council Tax
- your partner's income changing,or the income
Reduction, you may be fined.
changing of someone in your household, for
example because they start work or start getting a
Failure to tell us about a change affecting your
social security benefit
Housing Benefit or your Council Tax Reduction
-
the value of your savings or investments,
may lead to prosecution.
including property, going up or down, or the value
of the savings or investments of someone living in
your household going up or down
Version date 27 August 2014

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