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Benefits

If you are having trouble paying your Council Tax or Rent, you may be able to apply to West Oxfordshire District Council's (WODC) Benefits section for help.

You can use our web calculator to get an idea of whether you could qualify for help with your rent or council tax and how much you may be awarded.

Please note: the figures given from the web calculator are only an estimate of the amount you may be awarded.

From April 7^th, 2008 all new applications for help with payments of rent, or existing applications changing address, will be assessed for Local Housing Allowance (LHA).

You can download an application form in the downloads section to apply for LHA or Council Tax Benefit. You will need to supply evidence to support your application. You can visit our Evidence you will need to send page to find out more.

Please use the links on the left hand side for more information about Housing and Council Tax Benefits at WODC.

Customer Survey

We recently conducted a survey with regard to the way our customers would like to contact us and how customers would like us to contact them. The results of the survey are available to view on our Results Page.

Fair Processing Statement

We may pass any information you provide us to other agencies or organisations such as the Department for Work and Pensions or Her Majesties Customs and Excise, as allowed by law.

We may check information you have provided, or information about you that someone else has provided, with other information held by us.

We may also get information about you from certain third parties, or give them information to :

Prevent or detect crime;
Protect public funds; and
Make sure the information is correct.

These third parties include government departments, local authorities and private-sector companies such as banks, organisations that may lend you money and companies that assist us in fraud detection and prevention such as Experian.

We will not give information about you to anyone else, or use information about you for other purposes, unless the law allows us to.