Forms for housing benefit and council tax support
On this page you will find all of the housing benefit and council tax support forms.
When downloading and printing a form you may want to set your printer to grayscale to cut down on the amount of ink needed.
Due to essential maintenance our self-ervice portal and digital forms will not be available 7-9am on Friday 14 June please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
You can post your form to us at Revenues and Benefits, PO Box 676, Truro TR1 9EQ.
Cornwall Council, as the Data Controller, is committed to protecting your privacy and any personal data you provide or we collect about you will be stored securely and only used for housing benefit/council tax support assessments, in accordance with our privacy policy. We will not use your information for any other purpose or give it to anyone else unless we are required to do so by law. For example, we have a duty to protect public funds so we may need to use the information held about you for the prevention and detection of fraud which would require us to share it with other Council statutory services or organisations responsible for auditing or administering public funds.
Use this form to apply for housing benefit and council tax support.
Use this form if you don’t have wage slips.
Use this form to show your income if you’re self employed.
Use this form if you pay for childcare.
Use this form if you want to apply for a discretionary housing payment to help towards your rent or an exceptional relief award to help towards your council tax. You must already receive housing benefit or council tax support to apply.
Alternatively, you can download and complete the Change of address form for private tenants (PDF) form
Use this form if you’re renting from a private landlord.
Alternatively, you can download and complete the Change of address form for council tenants and people who own their own home (PDF) form
Use this form if you rent your home from us or own your home and receive council tax support.
Alternatively, you can download and complete the Change in circumstances form (PDF) form
Use this form to tell us about changes to your income, capital, members of your household, rent, private tenancy or moving to a new home.
Use this form if we are recovering an overpayment from your housing benefit and it’s causing you hardship.
Use this form if you need housing benefit payments direct to your landlord.
Use this form to change from payment by cheque to BACS.
Use this form to prove how much your rent is.
On this page you will find all of the housing benefit and council tax support forms.
When downloading and printing a form you may want to set your printer to grayscale to cut down on the amount of ink needed.
Continue readingDue to essential maintenance our self-ervice portal and digital forms will not be available 7-9am on Friday 14 June please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
You can post your form to us at Revenues and Benefits, PO Box 676, Truro TR1 9EQ.
Cornwall Council, as the Data Controller, is committed to protecting your privacy and any personal data you provide or we collect about you will be stored securely and only used for housing benefit/council tax support assessments, in accordance with our privacy policy. We will not use your information for any other purpose or give it to anyone else unless we are required to do so by law. For example, we have a duty to protect public funds so we may need to use the information held about you for the prevention and detection of fraud which would require us to share it with other Council statutory services or organisations responsible for auditing or administering public funds.
Use this form to apply for housing benefit and council tax support.
Use this form if you don’t have wage slips.
Use this form to show your income if you’re self employed.
Use this form if you pay for childcare.
Use this form if you want to apply for a discretionary housing payment to help towards your rent or an exceptional relief award to help towards your council tax. You must already receive housing benefit or council tax support to apply.
Alternatively, you can download and complete the Change of address form for private tenants (PDF) form
Use this form if you’re renting from a private landlord.
Alternatively, you can download and complete the Change of address form for council tenants and people who own their own home (PDF) form
Use this form if you rent your home from us or own your home and receive council tax support.
Alternatively, you can download and complete the Change in circumstances form (PDF) form
Use this form to tell us about changes to your income, capital, members of your household, rent, private tenancy or moving to a new home.
Use this form if we are recovering an overpayment from your housing benefit and it’s causing you hardship.
Use this form if you need housing benefit payments direct to your landlord.
Use this form to change from payment by cheque to BACS.
Use this form to prove how much your rent is.