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Help with Rent and Deposit Advance Payments
Help with Rent and Deposit Advance Payments
From the Benefits Agency
As a means to secure advance rent and deposit payments you can apply for a Budgeting Loan from the Department of Works and Pensions Social Fund.
You can ‘pick-up’ an application form from your local Social Security Office at:
Benefits Agency
3 Brook Street
Kingston KT1 2EY
Phone: 020 8481 3000
Open: Monday to Friday 10.00am to 4.00pm
You cannot secure more than £1,000 from the Social Fund and you have to repay any monies provided but there is no interest charged on a Budgeting Loan.
From Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness (KCAH)
KCAH manage an 'Access’ project to help single adult men secure a home in shared accommodation who do not have available advance rent and deposit monies.
Help is limited to the ‘Access’ project to single homeless men who are eligible for public funds.
For more information and to register for the ‘Access’ project contact:
Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness
36A Fife Road
Kingston
KT1 1SU
Phone: 020 8255 7400
Email: info@kcah.org.uk
Open: Full Advice Service: Monday and Thursday 10.00am to 1.00pm and 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Open: Hostel Placement Service: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10.00am to 1.00pm
From the Council
The Council’s Housing Advice Service is currently considering households who have expressed a wish to secure rented accommodation for help with those ‘advance’ payments private landlords seek.
The Housing Advice Service operates a rent and deposit loan agreement. This scheme is targeted to households who meet the criteria of ‘priority need’ and where their threatened homelessness may not be prevented. This assistance will be offered to households who do not have access to their own financial means to secure alternative rented accommodation.
A household may qualify for this assistance through a letting arranged by the Housing Advice Service with a private landlord. The Housing Advice Service would ensure that any rent charged under such a letting would be determined by the Rent Officer Service as eligible for benefit to ensure an affordable letting. Any such letting arranged through the Housing Advice Service would be sought for a minimum of one year.
If you wish to discuss the help available with deposit and rent-in-advance payments please contact the Housing Advice Service on 020 8547 5468 or on email at housingadvice@rbk.kingston.gov.uk