Civil Partnerships and your benefits
For Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, same sex couples who have formed a civil partnership or who are living together as if they were civil partners, will be treated in the same way as opposite sex couples who are married or are living together as husband and wife. This means the income of both partners is used when working out benefit.
Failure to inform the Benefits Service that you are forming a civil partnership or are living together as civil partners could mean that your Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit is overpaid and you may be asked to repay it.
Additional Resources
Housing and Council Tax Benefit Application Form
Second Adult Rebate Claim Form
Form to claim second adult rebateIf you have problems accessing the Adobe PDF downloads then click here for help
Civil Partnerships and your benefits
- Appeals
- Backdating your claim
- Benefit Calculator
- Benefit News
- Benefit on Two Homes
- Change of address
- Civil Partnerships and your benefits
- Claimant Newsletters
- Customer Satisfaction
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- Discussing your claim with others
- Forms and Leaflets
- Fraud
- Housing Benefit information for people renting from a private landlord
- Landlords
- Money Matters
- Non-dependants
- Overpayments
- Payment of Housing/Council Tax Benefit
- Reporting a Change
- Second Adult Rebate
- Service Standards
- The Benefit Calculation
- The Rent Service and Housing Benefit
- What is Verification?
Contact Us
Contact: Housing And Council Tax Benefits
16, Church Road
Stockton-on-Tees
TS18 1TX
Tel: 01642 393829
Fax: 01642 526669
Minicom: (01642) 605569
Email:
benefits.section
@stockton.gov.uk
Map of 16 Church Road |
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