Pay your rent Pay your monthly rent of £[...] in advance on the first day of the month without fail, Prioritise rent and priority debts Prioritise the following debts: [list debts]. Prioritise your essential housing and living and reduce the amount of money you are using towards [insert items], given the risk you may become homeless if you don’t manage your household budget more effectively. Do not make further payments towards your non-priority debts until you have [been advised by Citizens Advice debt advisor and you have agreed what amounts should be offered going forward]. Keep to your budget and payment plan Keep up the payments we have agreed, so your housing and priority payments are met, and so you can retain your housing if possible. Ensure money is not spent on non-priority items so far as possible. Housing benefit Submit a claim for housing benefit, making sure you also provide all the information and documents they need. Get a receipt and keep it safe. Provide the following information / documents to the housing benefit department, get a receipt and forward a copy of the receipt to us: [insert actions e.g. your latest tenancy agreement / letter from your landlord confirming your continuing tenancy and rent]. Contact the Council’s housing benefit section and submit a request that your current claim be backdated to [date]. Pay the shortfall between your rent and expected housing benefit entitlement every week. Ask the housing benefit department what action you need to take to ensure your housing benefit claim is processed. Keep a written record and let us know what you’re told. Submit a backdating request to the housing benefit department to cover the period [date] to [date] citing your reasons for the delay in claiming, so you can demonstrate reason’ for the delay. ‘good Ask the housing benefit department in writing to review the decision dated [date] by giving them the letter we helped you prepare, and get a receipt.
Pay your rent Pay your monthly rent of £[...] in advance on the first day of the month without fail, Prioritise rent and priority debts Prioritise the following debts: [list debts]. Prioritise your essential housing and living and reduce the amount of money you are using towards [insert items], given the risk you may become homeless if you don’t manage your household budget more effectively. Do not make further payments towards your non-priority debts until you have [been advised by Citizens Advice debt advisor and you have agreed what amounts should be offered going forward]. Keep to your budget and payment plan Keep up the payments we have agreed, so your housing and priority payments are met, and so you can retain your housing if possible. Ensure money is not spent on non-priority items so far as possible. Housing benefit Submit a claim for housing benefit, making sure you also provide all the information and documents they need. Get a receipt and keep it safe. Provide the following information / documents to the housing benefit department, get a receipt and forward a copy of the receipt to us: [insert actions e.g. your latest tenancy agreement / letter from your landlord confirming your continuing tenancy and rent]. Contact the Council’s housing benefit section and submit a request that your current claim be backdated to [date]. Pay the shortfall between your rent and expected housing benefit entitlement every week. Ask the housing benefit department what action you need to take to ensure your housing benefit claim is processed. Keep a written record and let us know what you’re told. Submit a backdating request to the housing benefit department to cover the period [date] to [date] citing your reasons for the delay in claiming, so you can demonstrate ‘good reason’ for the delay. Ask the housing benefit department in writing to review the decision dated [date] by giving them the letter we helped you prepare, and get a receipt.