Advice and benefits
Benefits
Bedroom entitlement calculator for your Local Housing
Allowance category
In each area there will be 6 or 7 weekly LHA rates (in categories A to G), so before you
look up your weekly LHA amount (it should be on your local council's website) you need to
know your LHA category and this depends by the number of bedrooms appropriate for your household
(you, your family and others who live with you). So to find the right number of bedrooms
for you, just select the circumstances which describe you (and your family, if any) on the
lists below and let the program work it out.
and click
to display the bedrooms for you
An explanation of the bedroom rules for the more complex household groups. One bedroom
is allowed for each of the following "people units", counting each person only once, in the
first group they match. (a) A married couple or an unmarried couple who
live together as husband and wife or same sex couples who have formed a civil partnership
or are living as if they have formed a civil partnership. (b) Someone who is 16 or
over. (c) Two children of the same sex who are younger than 16.
(d) Two children who are younger than 10. (e) A child (a ‘child’ is
someone under 16).
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