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Chapter 7
How is Housing Benefit paid?
[ch 7: page 77]HB is paid by local authorities. It is paid into the rent accounts of council tenants and into the bank or building society accounts of private tenants, although in some cases it is made directly to landlords where people have drug or alcohol problems, serious medical conditions, or trouble managing their money, for example.