There are certain circumstances where a bedroom or
bedrooms additional to the above may be included in the room
allowance for your housing benefit claim. These are as follows:
• Non-resident overnight carer
- One additional bedroom can be allowed where you or
your partner, is disabled and needs someone to provide her/him with
overnight care. Only one bedroom can be allowed for this, no matter
how many carers are needed
- Foster care
- One additional bedroom is allowed where you are a
foster carer and either: (a) you currently have a
foster child or young person placed with you; or
(b) you have been approved as a foster parent and
have a child or young person placed with you within the last 52
weeks
- Armed forces personnel
- A further room may be allowed for any adult son,
daughter, stepson or stepdaughter who is a member of the armed
services and has been deployed on operations and has an intention
to return to live with her/his parents
- Disabled child unable to share
- Where two children would be allocated one room
under the bedroom allowance rules, but one of the children is
unable to share because of their disability, an extra bedroom
should be allowed for that child
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