Change of circumstances
If you are in receipt of housing benefit and/or council tax support benefit and your circumstances change you must notify the benefits team immediately. You can do this by sending an email to benefits@basingstoke.gov.uk providing details of the change and any relevant evidence or you can completing an online change of circumstances form:
Online change of circumstances form
You must tell us if:
- Any of your children leave school or home
- Your childcare stops, starts or changes
- Anyone moves in or out of your home
- Your income or the income of anyone living with you, including benefits, changes
- Your capital savings or investments change
- You or anyone living with you, becomes a student, goes onto a youth training scheme, goes into hospital or a nursing home, goes into prison, or gets, changes or leaves a job
- Your rent changes
- You move
- You or your partner is going to be away from home
- You receive any decision from the home office
- There are any other changes
Chief Executive directive for online application changes (PDF)