Benefits and landlords

The Data Protection Act stops us from giving any tenant Housing Benefit information to a landlord.

If you're a landlord who receives payments directly from us, we can tell you about:

• the tenants that benefit payments relate to
• the periods of time the payments relate to
• the weekly amount of benefit awarded

We'll also let you know:

• if payments stop
• if a tenant requests future payments to be made to them
• if a deduction is being made for a previous overpayment