Students
Some students can get Housing Benefit and Council Tax
Benefit.
The main rule is that the claimant (the person putting in the
claim) must be in one of the groups shown below in order to get
Housing Benefit and main Council Tax Benefit. For a couple, the
partner who is the claimant must be in one of the eligible groups
(or not be a student).
Students who can claim
- Students on Income Support or Income-based Jobseekers
Allowance
- Students who count as part-time rather than full-time
- Students under 19 in further education
- Students aged 60+, or partners of students aged 60+
- Students who are responsible for a child or young person (aged
16-20 for whom child benefit is paid for)
- Students who are responsible for a foster child
- Students unable to get a grant or loan following a break in
their studies due to illness or providing care for someone.
- Students who receive
Disability Living Allowance (at any rate, either
component)
- Student who receive the disability element or severe disability
element in their working tax credit
- Students who for any other reason qualify for a disability
premium in the assessment of their applicable amount (this is the
amount government states you need to live on, used when working out
Housing and Council Tax benefit)
- Students who receive Incapacity Benefit at the at the
short-term higher rate or the long-term rate
- Students who are incapable of work and have been for a 'waiting
period' of 28 weeks
- Student who are registered blind by Adult and Community
Services, or were within the past 28 weeks
- Students who have a UK grant assessment which included an
allowance for deafness (even if they are not awarded a grant)
Details and proof of your grant, parents' contributions and
other income are needed to work out what benefit you may be
entitled to.
Full time students are normally exempt from the payment of
Council Tax and therefore will not be entitled to Council Tax
Benefit.