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High level of calls with our Housing repairs team

We are currently experiencing a high level of calls into our Housing repairs team. If your repair is not urgent, then please contact us by email at repairs@eastdevon.gov.uk, providing as much information as you can about your repair, and your contact details and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

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  1. How much Housing Benefit could I get?
  2. Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction forms
  3. An overview of Housing Benefit
  4. Welfare changes including Benefit Cap
  5. Local Housing Allowance (LHA)
  6. Temporary absence from home and your Housing Benefit
  7. Review of your Housing Benefit/Council Tax Reduction
  8. Something else

3. An overview of Housing Benefit

How to apply, when your claim will start, appeals and overpayments.

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  1. Who can apply for Housing Benefit
  2. When your claim will start?
  3. How we calculate your Housing Benefit
  4. Housing Benefit payments
  5. How to appeal against our decision
  6. Housing Benefit overpayments
  7. Ways to pay an overpayment
  8. What happens if the overpayment is not repaid?
  9. How to appeal an Housing Benefit overpayment
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    Welfare changes including Benefit Cap

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Last updated 19 February 2022

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