Housing Benefit

If you are a single parent you can claim housing benefit despite being a full time student but your income decides how much you are entitled to. Your special support grant, parent learning allowance, child benefit, Child Care Grant and some of your student loan is ignored as income and generally any Access to Learning Funds you get from your university are also ignored. Your Child Tax Credit and most of your student loan (except in july and august when the loan is ignored too) is counted as income for housing benefit- this usually means you will receive some housing benefit in term time and maximum HB in July and August. You can also claim either JSA (youngest child over 5) or Income Support (youngest under 5) in July and August.