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Apply for Housing Benefit

To find out which benefits you are entitled to please first use our online benefits calculator

Once you have done this please

We can only normally award benefit from the Monday after we receive your claim, so don’t delay – send off your application today!

In some cases, we can backdate your benefit – for further details please see our information about backdating benefit.

Contact us - Benefits

0345 302 2313
(Text phone users add 18001 before dialling)

South Oxfordshire District Council
PO Box 870
Erith
DA8 1UN