Council tax and housing benefit

DD1966

Hi, just out of curiosity i went onto the entitled to website i typed in all the relevant info they asked for for the tax year 2007/2008. my husband had only earned £12800 in that year as he had not been in his new job for long, so based on this he was getting working tax credit and i was getting child tax credit, according to the entitled to website calculator, we should have claimed full housing benefit and council tax benefit which would have taken us to this april, however we did not claim it as we thought we were'nt entitled to anything because of my husbands job. my question is, can i claim back all the rent and council tax we have paid or is it too late??

Hutch100uk

If you were on full tax credits I'm not sure that you would get full housing benefit. It may have been more worthwhile getting the full housing benefit (but which would then drop your tax credits). Its a bit of a minefield I think - maybe you should talk to CAB,.