Working out your LHA if you are a care leaver under 22

To work out how much benefit you might get you need to find out what Local Housing Allowance rate your benefit will be based on. If you are a care leaver aged less than 22, or if you live with a care leaver aged less than 22 as your partner, and have no dependent children your benefit will be based on the one bedroom Local Housing Allowance rate.

By care leaver we mean someone who was subject to a care order on their 16^th birthday and who was looked after by a local authority for a period totalling at least 13 weeks between the ages of 14 and 16. 

You can find out what the Local Housing Allowance room rates are by checking our Local Housing Allowance rates page.

The Allowance Rates are displayed on our website, in our Customer Service Centres and in our office at St Aldates, opposite the Town Hall. A copy can also be obtained by contacting us using the details on the right of this page. 

The amount of benefit you can get may be affected by:

• any money you have coming in
• any savings you have
• how much your rent is

if you share paying the rent with someone else

Page last reviewed 6 May 2009