Forms for housing benefit and council tax support
You can make a new claim for housing benefit or council tax support online.
You can report any change to an existing housing benefit or council tax support claim.
On this page you will find all of the housing benefit and council tax support forms as a printable PDF.
When downloading and printing a form you may want to set your printer to grayscale to cut down on the amount of ink needed.
You can post your form to us at Revenues and Benefits, PO Box 676, Truro TR1 9EQ.
If you are providing supporting evidence, please only send us photocopies of your documents. If you send an original document we will not be able to return this to you unless you ask us to return the document and enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
Cornwall Council, as the Data Controller, is committed to protecting your privacy. 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.
For more information please view our data protection policy.
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.
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.
You can make a new claim for housing benefit or council tax support online.
You can report any change to an existing housing benefit or council tax support claim.
Continue readingOn this page you will find all of the housing benefit and council tax support forms as a printable PDF.
When downloading and printing a form you may want to set your printer to grayscale to cut down on the amount of ink needed.
You can post your form to us at Revenues and Benefits, PO Box 676, Truro TR1 9EQ.
If you are providing supporting evidence, please only send us photocopies of your documents. If you send an original document we will not be able to return this to you unless you ask us to return the document and enclose a stamped addressed envelope.
Cornwall Council, as the Data Controller, is committed to protecting your privacy. 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.
For more information please view our data protection policy.
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.
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.