Current claim

If you are currently receiving Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit and there is a change in your circumstances, you must let us know as immediately as it may affect the amount of benefit you receive.

If you don't tell us about a change, and we give you too much benefit, you will be asked to repay any over paid benefit and you could also be prosecuted.

If the change means an increase in your benefit, it will be applied from the date you tell us, unless you tell us within one calendar month of the change.

You must tell us if:-

Money

• You start or stop getting Income Support or Job Seekers Allowance (income based)
• You start or stop getting Child or Working Tax Credit or Child Benefit
• The money you or your partner gets increases or decreases
• The money non-dependants get increases or decreases
• There are any other changes in the money people in your home get. For example, someone starts getting Disability Living Allowance
• You start or stop paying child care costs

Home

• You move home
• The number of people in your home changes - for example, someone has a baby
• A partner comes to live with you
• A partner leaves
• Your rent increases/decreases

Other changes

• 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 savings or capital you have 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.

You can get information on reviewing your benefits.

Contact Details

For further advice about your benefits, please contact Revenues and Benefits on 0121 704 6214 or email revenues@solihull.gov.uk