Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates
If you are renting from a private landlord and after 7 April 2008 and:
- have made a new claim for benefit or
- changed address or
- reclaimed benefit after a gap of a week
The LHA that is used to work out your benefit will depend on how many people are in your household and the area you live in. The LHA rate used generally remains the same for a year so if your claim starts in May 2009 we will use the May 2009 LHA rate until May 2010.
The number of rooms allowed
One bedroom for each of the following, counting each person once only, in the first group they come into:
- a married couple or civil partnership or an unmarried couple who live together as husband and wife or as though in a civil partnership.
- someone who is 16 or over
- two children of the same sex under 16
- two children of the same sex or opposite sex who are younger than 10
- a child (a ‘child’ is someone under 16).
Special rules
- Single people under 25 years old who are not disabled will receive the shared room rate.
- Care leavers under 22 years old will receive the one bedroom rate.
- Joint tenants: each joint tenant’s household is considered separately. Joint tenants entitled to only one bedroom will receive the shared room rate.
Six or more bedrooms
From 6 April 2009 for new claims or a change of address, the maximum LHA rate is the 5 bedroom rate
For existing claims:
When you reach the anniversary date of your claim which is when we would have based your benefit on the latest LHA rate you will be protected from the restriction to the 5 bedroom rate for up to 26 weeks.
Your local housing allowance rates updated monthly (up to 31 March 2010)
There are three Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) in Barnet, each BRMA has a name and an ID number. You can find out which BRMA the property is in from the rent officer’s website (external link). You will also be able to see the LHA rates since April 2008.
From 1 November 2009 the Inner North and West London BRMA has been replaced by a new BRMA Inner North London. The postcodes are the same except for a very few near Staples Corner. For further information you can use the rent officer's website link above
150 - Outer North London
| Room Category | Per week: 1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 |
Per month: 1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 |
Per week: 1 March 2010 to 31 March 2010 |
Per month: 1 March 2010 to 31 March 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room with or without shared living room and sharing a kitchen, bathroom or toilet |
£90.00 | £390.00 | £90.00 | £390.00 |
| 1 bedroom | £175.00 | £758.33 | £176.05 | £762.88 |
| 2 bedrooms | £229.84 | £995.97 | £230.00 | £996.67 |
| 3 bedrooms | £287.67 | £1,246.57 | £287.67 | £1,246.57 |
| 4 bedrooms | £373.97 | £1,620.54 | £373.97 | £1,620.54 |
| 5 bedrooms or more | £503.15 | £2,180.32 | £500.00 | £2,166.67 |
147 - North West London
| Room Category | Per week: 1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 |
Per month: 1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 |
Per week: 1 March 2010 to 31 March 2010 |
Per month: 1 March 2010 to 31 March 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room with or without shared living room and sharing a kitchen, bathroom or toilet |
£87.00 | £377.00 | £87.53 | £379.30 |
| 1 bedroom | £172.60 | £747.93 | £172.60 | £747.93 |
| 2 bedrooms | £218.63 | £947.40 | £218.63 | £947.40 |
| 3 bedrooms | £276.16 | £1,196.69 | £276.16 | £1,196.69 |
| 4 bedrooms | £341.75 | £1,480.92 | £334.35 | £1,448.85 |
| 5 bedrooms or more | £439.00 | £1902.33 | £438.13 | £1,898.56 |
161 - Inner North London
| Room Category | Per week 1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 |
Per month: 1 February 2010 to 28 February 2010 |
Per week 1 March 2010 to 31 March 2010 |
Per month: 1 March 2010 to 31 March 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 room with or without shared living room and sharing a kitchen, bathroom or toilet |
£112.00 | £485.33 | £110.00 | £476.67 |
| 1 bedroom | £250.00 | £1,083.33 | £244.71 | £1,060.41 |
| 2 bedrooms | £349.12 | £1,512.85 | £340.00 | £1,473.33 |
| 3 bedrooms | £450.00 | £1,950.00 | £450.00 | £1,950.00 |
| 4 bedrooms | £600.00 | £2,600.00 | £600.00 | £2,600.00 |
| 5 bedrooms or more | £770.00 | £3,336.67 | £700.00 | £3,033.33 |
For details on how your benefit is worked out, return to benefits.
Email this pageLast modified by: Jon Barnett on 24/02/2010