Change of Circumstances

If you have already claimed Housing and/or Council Tax Benefit, you should inform us immediately if anything changes or if anything happens which might affect how much benefit you get.

If you don't tell us about a change, and we pay you too much benefit, you may have to pay it back.

You must tell us about the following changes.

Changes to your income

Please tell us if:

• You start or stop getting Income Support or Jobseekers Allowance (income based).

• You start or stop getting any Social Security Benefits, Tax Credits or Pension Credits.

• The income you or your partner gets increases or decreases.

• The income non-dependants get increases or decreases.

• There are any other changes in the income of people in your home. For example, someone starts getting Disability Living Allowance.
  

Changes in your home

Please tell us if:

• You change your address.

• The number of people in your home changes. For example, someone has a baby.

• A partner comes to live with you or leaves.
  

Other changes

Please tell us if:

• You, or your partner, go into hospital for more than 52 weeks.

• You, or your partner, become a student, or stop being a student.

• The amount of your savings or capital changes.
  

You do not have to tell us about changes in age (for example, if one of your children becomes 11 years old), as we will have this information already.

To notify us of a change in your circumstances please contact us using the phone number or email contact form above