Welcome
Welcome to the updated benefit website. This site
provides you with information on how to claim, what
information you need to provide, our performance
information plus other help available from outside agencies
for help in hard times.
Please click the links to the left of this page.
Benefits
There are numerous national welfare benefits available to
financially assist those who are:
- On a low income
- Have children
- Of pensionable age or
- Unable to work due to an illness or disability.
These benefits are administered by a number of different public
bodies which include Redditch Borough Council, The Department
for Work and Pensions and HMRC (formerly the Inland Revenue).
Redditch Borough Council is responsible for the
administration of the following Benefits:
Housing Benefit.
Council Tax
Benefit.
Second
Adult Rebate
You can get an estimate on the amount of the above benefits by
visiting the online
Benefits
Calculator.
Ways to Contact us
You can contact us via one of the following
ways:
Visit one of the Customer Service Centres at the Town
Hall, Batchley, Winyates or Woodrow.
(01527) 534050
hbenefits@redditchbc.gov.uk
For the latest news regarding Housing and Council Tax Benefit,
please click on the link below:
Latest News
We have also posted a Income
Maximisation page which contains other
helpful websites, including other benefits, discounts and
exemptions for help in hard times.
If you are experiencing problems with paying your mortgage,
please visit the Direct.Gov 
website or visit Redditch Borough Council's
Mortgage Rescue
Scheme pages.
Please click on the name of each Benefit to be re-directed to
another page on this site where you will be able to find more
information.
As well as these Benefits, help may be available with your
Council Tax in the form of discounts and exemptions. For more
information on these, please see our Council Tax page.