housing benefit

noun

1. social welfare (in Britain) a payment made by a local authority in the form of a rent rebate to a council tenant or a rent allowance to a private tenant

Example Sentences

The amount of housing benefit that private renters can claim will be frozen again next year, the government has confirmed.

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Housing benefit is paid to low-income households to cover all or part of their rent, either as a standalone payment or as part of Universal Credit.

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Housing benefit has not automatically reflected rent rises since 2013, with the Conservatives freezing it for seven for the last 12 years.

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Housing benefit rates used to be automatically linked to the cost of rents in different areas, but this ended under the Tory-Lib Dem coalition in 2012.

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Nicole, who uses them and they pronoun, said they receive Employment and Support Allowance of £1,042, Personal Independent Payments of £798, and Housing Benefit of £917 per month.

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