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April 2009 benefits up-rating

New programs are being issued to continuing subscribers.

Latest versions

The latest version of the Quick Benefits Calculator is 13.00 released April 2009.

The latest version of the Lisson Grove Benefits Program is 6.90 released April 2009.

The latest version of the Child Support Calculator is 14.00 released April 2009.

Pre-Budget Report: Housing Costs

All our programs have been updated to reflect the changes to the treatment of housing costs in the means-tested benefits announced in the Pre-Budget Report.

• for working-age claimants, benefit can be paid on loans up to £200,000, rather than the £100,000 limit previously applied to most claims
• claimants under 60 must wait 13 rather than 39 weeks for benefit.
• for new claimants only, housing costs paid as part of income-based jobseeker's allowance will end after two years.

Employment and Support Allowance

Our programs are fully updated to reflect the introduction of Employment and Support allowance.

Local Housing Allowance

Our benefits programs have been updated to reflect the introduction of the Local Housing Allowance. The programs will calculate the room requirement and request the relevant local housing allowance figure. Local housing allowance figures are available from the rent service website. We hope to have our own local housing allowance server operational shortly. Assuming availability of the raw data from the Rent Service, this will allow customers to look up local housing allowance figures from within the programs.