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You should apply for housing benefit and / or council tax support as soon as you can.

If we have decided that you have not shown 'good cause' and we cannot backdate your claim, the reasons for this will be explained in our letter.For older people the backdate period will continue to be 3 months.To request backdating either: If you forgot to claim or did not know you could claim this would not be a good reason on its own.If you don't agree with our decision you can ask us to look at it again. For working age people, from 1 April 2016 the Government has reduced the backdate period from 6 months to 1 month.