Subjects:

Social Security and Welfare Law, Housing Law

It is the twenty-fifth year of Housing Benefit. This anniversary edition provides full coverage of the housing benefit and council tax benefit schemes for 2007 for the United Kingdom, including the local housing allowance and direct payment

reforms operating in the pathfinder areas. It has many practical examples and useful tables and isused by local councils, tribunal members, advisers, claimants, landlords and housing professionals.

This edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate all the changes over the past year, including the April 2007 uprating. New items include:-

• Telephone and online claims and provision of signatures
• Recovery of HB overpayments from landlords and claimants
• What claimants are expected to understand about overpayments
• Case law on non-commercial and ‘contrived’ lettings
• HB on two homes and when moving home
• Changes in the way income is assessed
• The right to reside test for Bulgarian and Romanian nationals.