Housing Benefit (Pension Age)

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If you (and your partner, if you have one) have reached State Pension Age, you can make a new claim for Housing Benefit. You can do so by completing the Housing Benefit/Council Tax Reduction Pensioner Application Form – this can be found within the Documents section of this page.

If you're in a mixed-age couple, where one of you has reached State Pension age and the other has not, you will need to claim Universal Credit until you both reach State Pension age. 

If you've been getting Housing Benefit as a mixed-age couple since before 15 May 2019, this continues unless your situation changes.

You can check your State Pension age on the GOV.UK website.