Local Housing Allowance .net

This series of pages explains how the Local Housing Allowance is calculated. Most of the information is taken from the DWP Guidance Manual.

Establishing the maximum rent

The size criteria

• Size criteria where tenants have a partner or household member who have no recourse to public funds, eg persons from abroad
• Joint tenants
• Joint tenants with a shared non-dependant
• Single claimants aged under 25 years
• Single claimants aged 25 years and over, and couples with no dependant children
• Child reaching age of 10 or 16
• Care leavers under 22

Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs)

• Conditions for setting a BRMA
• Setting the LHA
• Reviewing the BRMAs and LHAs

Length of LHA award

• Leap years
• Changes of circumstances
• Date of claim
• Claim backdated after LHA scheme starts
• Rapid reclaims