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For Housing Benefit or Council Tax Reduction.

Get financial help to ease pressures after leaving care, homelessness or detention. You can also get help due to an emergency, disaster, family breakdown or illness.

Access financial support to help with rent or housing costs.

Get started with Universal Credit, a payment to help with your living costs.

The Early Advice Support Team can help you with budgeting, benefits advice and making sure you are claiming the benefits you are entitled to.

Use this form if you have been overpaid a benefit and need to pay it back.

Let us know if there has been a change in your household or income that may affect your benefits.

If you think someone is fraudulently claiming benefits you can report them anonymously.

If you have moved house and still have to pay rent on your previous address you may be able to get up to 4 weeks overlap in rent.

Use this form to make sure you get the right amount of benefit.