Change of circumstance for Housing Benefit and Local Council Tax Support

You must tell the Benefit section immediately of any changes in circumstances affecting you, your partner, or anyone else living in your home. Please write or email us to let us know these changes.

We need you to tell us of any change in circumstance, such as the following:

any of your children leave school or leave home
anyone moves into or out of your home, including lodgers and sub-tenants
your income or the income of anyone living with you, including benefits, changes
your capital or savings change
you or anyone living with you becomes a student, goes on a Youth Training Scheme, goes into hospital or a nursing home, goes into prison, or changes or leaves a job
your rent changes
you move
you or your partner are going to be temporarily absent from your home
you or anyone living with you starts work
you receive any decision from the Home Office
anything you have told us about changes.

This is not a full list. If you are not sure, ask us for advice. You must tell us about any changes in writing or by email to Benefits@guildford.gov.uk within one month of the change - a phone call is not enough.

If you do not tell us about any changes, you may lose money you are entitled to or you may get too much benefit.

You must make sure that you tell us about any changes. Do not rely on someone else to pass the message on.

It is an offence not to tell your council about any changes that may affect your benefit. We may take court action against you and if we pay you too much benefit, you will probably have to pay it back.