LRD guides and handbook April 2017

State benefits and tax credits 2017

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Chapter 7

How much do you get?


[ch 7: page 86]

There is no set amount of Housing Benefit as it falls within the Benefit Cap (see chapter 2) which is currently set at:


• £442 a week in London and £385 per week outside the capital for households with children; and 


• £296.35 a week in London and £257.69 a week outside the capital for single adults without children living with them. 


The Benefit Cap is applied as a reduction in the amount of Housing Benefit awarded. 




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