Help with Housing Costs: Advising on Universal Credit, Housing Benefit and Pension Credit, 2026/27

This guide, produced by Shelter, gives the rules for help with personal housing costs available to social housing tenants, private tenants, home owners and share owners. 

Help With Housing Costs covers the rules about universal credit, housing benefit, state pension credit, support for mortgage interest and council tax rebates. It covers both working age and pension age claims and is designed for easy use by renters, owners, local councils, social landlords, welfare and finance advisers, tribunal members and housing professionals throughout Great Britain.