Housing and housing benefits

Help to pay your rent

If you are unemployed or on a low income, there are benefits you can get to help pay the costs of where you live.

Join the Buckinghamshire Housing Register, look for temporary accommodation.

If you get benefits for housing, you must tell us if there are any changes that may affect how much money you get.

If you have been paid too much in benefits, find out how to pay back the money.

How a tenant's housing benefit may be paid directly to you, and how to tell us about any changes that affect how much money they get.

If you know anyone who is being paid housing benefits they should not get, let us know.

Find a place to live or get help with housing issues.

Request repairs to a private rented property, get help recovering a deposit, report harassment or an illegal eviction.

Get assistance with home repairs, find out about local land charges, request advice around mortgage and leasehold problems.

Learn about affordable warmth and sustainability at home.

If you live in Buckinghamshire, you may be able to apply for Local Emergency Support.

Find out how you can make a real change the lives of rough sleepers in your local area.

You have been requested to complete a Housing Benefit review form.

Find information about properties that are let to 3 or more people, forming 2 or more households and apply for a license.