The Local Housing Allowance

The new rent allowance scheme

Local Housing Allowance (LHA)

What is the LHA?

The Local Housing Allowance is a new way of calculating Housing Benefit for private tenants only, that will be introduced nationally  from April 2008. 

As with the existing Housing Benefit scheme, LHA is administered in order to help people pay their rent. 

You will only get the LHA if: 

• you rent from a private landlord, and 
• you have a low income or are getting certain welfare benefits.       

The LHA is intended to make Housing Benefit more simple and fair and give claimants personal responsibility for paying their rent.

Click here for more information on the LHA and some FAQs

You can see Hammersmith & Fulham's LHA Vulnerability Procedure here

Click on the links for the relevant LHA rates for August, September and October 2008, for the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.