Housing Benefit information for landlords
We work out Housing Benefit using the Local Housing Allowance. This may not be the same as the rent you are charging your tenants.
If a tenant's Housing Benefit is less than the amount of the rent, the tenant has to pay the difference.
Find out more about Housing Benefit.
Housing Benefit payment dates
We pay Housing Benefit:
- every two weeks in arrears if we are paying direct to your tenant
- every four weeks in arrears by bank transfer to landlords.
The payment dates for financial year 2025/26 are listed below:
- 17 April 2025
- 16 May 2025
- 13 June 2025
- 11 July 2025
- 8 August 2025
- 5 September 2025
- 3 October 2025
- 28 October 2025
- 28 November 2025
- 24 December 2025
- 23 January 2026
- 20 February 2026
- 20 March 2026
Changes to your tenant's circumstances
Tenants claiming Housing Benefit must tell us about changes that may affect their entitlement.
If we pay too much benefit because of changes to circumstances we don't know about, we will expect the overpayment to be paid back to us.
Where we are paying a tenant's Housing Benefit direct to a landlord, we expect the landlord to tell us about changes to tenants' circumstances that may affect Housing Benefit entitlement. This applies where it is something that the landlord could be expected to know about, for example if the tenant moves out.
In these circumstances, we will look to the landlord to repay any overpaid benefit.
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