RR2 - A guide to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
Terminology
There are a number of terms in this guide which have specific meanings. The following list, which is given for guidance only, is a summary of those terms:
| Income | is all the money that you have coming in from earnings, social security benefits, maintenance payments and other sources. |
| Capital | means your savings, investments and the value of property and land owned but not occupied by you. You will not get Housing Benefit (HB) or Council Tax Benefit (CTB) if your capital is worth more than £16,000, unless you are aged 60 or over and receiving Pension Credit (Guarantee), in which case there is no set limit on the capital you can have. |
| Partner | We use partner to mean:
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| Children | for HB/CTB a child is described as someone who has not reached his or her sixteenth birthday. After that children are classed as young persons up to their nineteenth birthday as long as they remain at school or in non-advanced education at college. In this guide a young person is treated the same as a child, so the word child may refer to a child or young person. |
| Applicable amount | represents the needs of you and your family, if you have one. The applicable amount is made up of three parts: a personal allowance; personal allowances for children in your family; premiums. |
| Right to reside and habitually resident | We will decide if you have a right to reside and are habitually resident by asking you things like:
We may be able to treat you as having the right to reside and habitually resident if you:
For more information, contact your local council. |