Local Housing Allowance
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) is used to work out how much Housing Benefit (HB) you can get if you rent your home from a private landlord.
Wyre is split into three Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMA's), each with it's own set of LHA rates. The amount of LHA we use to calculate your housing benefit will depend on where you live and how many bedrooms you and your family require.
1. First, we check to see the BRMA you live in:
- Fylde Coast: Fleetwood, Normoss, Poulton, Thornton Cleveleys and Over Wyre including Hambleton, Knott End, Pilling and Preesall
- Central Lancashire: Bilsborrow, Calder Vale, Catterall, Churchtown, Garstang and Scorton
- Lancaster: Dolphinholme and Forton
2. Before working out the rate that applies to you, we count how many bedrooms you and your family/household require based on government guidelines. One bedroom per:
- couple
- any other adult (aged 16 or over)
- any two children of the same sex under 16
- any two children under 10
- any other child
If you are a single claimant under 35 years of age we use the shared room rate of LHA.
3. Use the table below to see the rate of LHA that applies to you:
| Number of bedrooms | Fylde Coast weekly amount | Central Lancs weekly amount | Lancaster weekly amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared room rate | 80.75 | 70.00 | 90.75 |
| One bedroom | 92.05 | 103.56 | 109.32 |
| Two bedroom | 124.73 | 132.33 | 132.33 |
| Three bedroom | 143.84 | 149.59 | 149.59 |
| Four bedroom | 170.88 | 212.88 | 166.85 |