Housing Benefit Guidance Manual: Amendment 17 December 2008
Chapter A4 - Eligible rent
Contents
- 4.00 - About this chapter
- 4.20 - What is eligible rent?
- 4.40 - What is included as the dwelling
- 4.70 - Payments which are eligible for HB
- 4.70 - Payments for a licence or permission to occupy the accommodation
- 4.80 - Mesne profits
- 4.90 - Payments for, or in consequence of, use and occupation of the accommodation
- 4.100 - Mooring charges
- 4.110 - Site rent for a caravan or mobile home
- 4.120 - Almshouse contributions
- 4.130 - Shared ownership schemes
- 4.140 - Rental purchase
- 4.150 - Crofters
- 4.160 - Increase in rent to cover Council Tax
- 4.170 - Housing co-operatives
- 4.200 - Payments which are not eligible for HB
- 4.200 - Crown tenants
- 4.260 - Long leaseholders
- 4.270 - Co-ownership scheme
- 4.280 - Owner-occupiers
- 4.290 - Payments under a hire-purchase credit sale or conditional sale agreement for accommodation or furniture
- 4.300 - Rent increases for arrears
- 4.310 - Housing costs included in IS or JSA(IB)
- 4.320 - Business premises
- 4.330 - Former business premises
- 4.340 - LA care accommodation costs
- 4.350 - Care homes and independent hospitals in the private and voluntary sectors - transitional protection
- 4.4450 - Calculating eligible rent
- 4.600 - Water charges
- 4.700 - Service charges
- 4.860 - Ineligible service charges
- 4.860 - Amount for ineligible service charge is specified
- 4.870 - Unspecified amount for service charges
- 4.880 - Apportioning ineligible charges
- 4.890 - Excessive charges for eligible services
- 4.900 - Service charges for fuel
- 4.960 - Restricting the eligible rent
- 4.1000 - ‘Old’ scheme rules
- 4.1050 - Exempt accommodation
- 4.1060 - Calculating the eligible rent
- 4.1070 - Referring cases to the rent officer
- 4.1100 - Unreasonably expensive or large accommodation - restriction on eligible rent
- 4.1110 - Deciding what constitutes a reasonable rent
- 4.1150 - Unreasonably large accommodation
- 4.1160 - Accommodation may be unreasonably expensive and unreasonably large
- 4.1170 - Suitability of alternative accommodation
- 4.1250 - Decision made to restrict the rent
- 4.1330 - New scheme rules
- 4.1360 - Registered Social Landlords
- 4.1370 - Applications to the rent officer
- 4.1500 - Deciding who is an occupier
- 4.1550 - Ineligible service charges
- 4.1600 - Rent officer determinations
- 4.1700 - LA action on receipt of rent officer’s determination
- 4.1810 - Young people under 25
- 4.1900 - Rent increases
- 4.2000 - Payments on account
- 4.2050 - Pre-Tenancy Determinations (PDT)
- 4.2100 - Re-determinations
- Annex A - People not subject to the new scheme rules
- Annex B - R v Macclesfield Borough Council Housing Benefit Review Board, ex parte Temsamani
- Annex C - R v Swale Borough Council Housing Benefit Review Board, ex parte Marchant