ATHOME - SUMMER 2022
YOUR MONEY
SUPPORTING YOU THIS SUMMER
Cost of Living Crisis Support for Barnet residents
If you are struggling to pay your rent or fuel bills, you can call our Income Collection Team who may be able to help. Phone: 020 8080 6587 Website: barnethomes.org/contact-us We provide advice on: • • • •
Paying your rent, including arrears management and budgeting Benefit and income maximisation making sure you are claiming all that you are entitled to Energy advice and tips, and how to access national support schemes. Financial support - how you can manage debt, and which other routes of financial support are available for you.
Barnet Homes will be offering Free Budgeting Advice Sessions from June 2022 onwards. If you are interested in attending a session please contact
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your Income Collection Officer or email talktous@barnethomes.org, where an appointment or session will be offered to you. Getting DWP benefits or Tax Credits? Then this will affect you… Between May 2022 and late 2024 persons of working age claiming legacy benefits (Income Support, Income Based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA-IB), Income Related Employment and Support Allowance (ESAIR), Housing Benefit (HB) and Tax Credits) will receive notification letters from the DWP explaining that they need to make a claim for Universal Credit (UC) within a threemonth deadline date. Couples will be sent separate notification letters. Pensioners (who don’t have a partner of working age) and supported housing customers will continue to be entitled to receive HB once they migrate to UC. People claiming UC under the managed migration process are entitled to apply for an ‘Advance Payment’
