A Claim Form For Housing Benefit And Council Tax Support Page 21
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Notes
About Housing Benefit and Council Tax
How we collect and use information
Support
We will use the information you give in this form, and in any
supporting evidence you send, to process your claim for Housing
Housing Benefit can pay all or part of your rent. It may also give
Benefit and Council Tax Support.
you some extra money towards things you have to pay for, like
children’s play areas and cleaning shared areas. Council Tax
We may pass the information to other agencies or organisations
Support can pay all or part of your Council Tax. It cannot help with
such as the Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue
water charges or, if you live in Scotland, the Scottish Water
and Customs, as allowed by the law.
Authority water and sewerage charges.
We may check information you have provided, or information
about you that someone else has provided, with other information
we hold. We may also get information about you from certain
Housing Benefit Payments
third parties, or give information to them to:
If Local Housing Allowance applies to you, benefit will be paid
•
make sure the information is accurate
directly to you. If you have had problems opening a current
•
prevent or detect crime, and
account, or if you are worried about being overdrawn, you could
ask any bank or building society about opening a basic bank
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protect public funds.
account. These are sometimes called introductory or starter
These third parties include government departments, other local
accounts and are available from all major banks. These accounts
authorities and private-sector organisations such as banks and
offer free banking but overdrafts are not available. You can use
organisations that may lend you money.
these accounts to pay money in, pay bills automatically and get
cash out. Many basic bank accounts also allow you to get cash
They will not give information about you to anyone else, or use
from Post Offices ®.
information about you for other purposes, unless the law allows
this.
Your local council is the data controller for the purposes of the
Data Protection Act.
If you want to know more about what information we have about
you, or the way we use that information, please ask us.
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