Housing Systems: Combating poverty and sustaining tenancies.
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How Much: Income

How it Works

The basics of how the HB Office assess a claimant's income

Whose Income Counts?

Is it just the claimant's income that counts?
 

Earnings

How earnings are assessed, and what disregards can apply.

Self-Employed Earnings

How self-employed earnings are assessed, and what disregards can apply.

Benefit Income

Which are counted, which not and which have partial disregards.

On Pension Credit

What rules apply when on Pension Credit?

Tax Credits

Special rules for Tax Credit income.

Other Income

What about pensions, rental income etc?

Nil Income

What if the claimant currently has no income? & how long can HB be paid on this basis?

Notional Income

What is it and how is it worked out?
 

Student Income

For those students who can claim HB how is their student income assessed?

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