Local Housing Allowance Rates

The Rent Service has provided Wirral Council with the following Local Housing Allowance rates, which are effective from 1 April 2012 and will not change for 12 months.

These rates will be used for calculating all new claims made on or after 1 April 2012 and for those tenants who have a break in their Housing Benefit claim of one week or more after 1 April 2012.

Number of bedrooms

Shared accommodation rate

(including single under 35's)

 1 2 3 4
Weekly LHA rate (£) 63.50 86.54 103.85 126.92 138.46
Monthly LHA rate (£) 275.00 375.00 450.00 550.00 600.00

The rates shown above relate to the number of bedrooms required by the household (for example, if a household needs 3 bedrooms their Housing Benefit will be based on the 3 bedroom rate regardless of how many bedrooms the property actually has). The maximum bedroom allowance for Local housing Allowance is 4 bedrooms, even if you need 5 bedrooms or more.

Bedroom allocation is as follows:

One bedroom each for:

  • every adult couple
  • any other adult aged 16 or over
  • any 2 children of the same sex
  • any 2 children regardless of sex under age 10
  • any other child (Foster children are not counted)
  • non resident carer