Publications

Pre-order the 2024-25 ‘Help with Housing Costs’ guide to advising on housing benefit, universal credit, state pension credit, support for mortgage interest and council tax rebates to receive it immediately upon publication in late April.

The 2023-24 editions are still on sale below. Copies are dispatched once payment has cleared.

Pre-order: Help with Housing Costs 2024-25

Price: £65 + P&P 
10% discount applies to orders of 5 or more 

Providing all the rules for help with personal housing costs available to social housing tenants, private tenants, homeowners and share owners in one concise publication. 

Covering both working age and pension age claims, the guide is designed for easy use by renters, owners, local councils, social landlords, welfare and finance advisers, tribunal members and housing professionals throughout Great Britain. 

This new combined publication covers the rules from April 2024 about universal credit, housing benefit, state pension credit, support for mortgage interest and council tax rebates.  

Accessible and easy to use, the guide includes many practical examples and around 100 useful tables for quick reference. Although it provides information on the different benefits side-by-side within chapters on specific topics, eg private renters, there are three separate chapters to help readers with calculations: Universal Credit, Housing Benefit and State Pension Credit. 

You can amend the exact number of copies you wish to purchase during checkout. 


Volume one – Guide to Universal Credit & Council Tax Rebates 2023-2024

Price: £47.50 + P&P

Covers the UK rules about help with personal housing costs from universal credit, mortgage interest loans, council tax rebates in Great Britain and rate rebate in Northern Ireland.
This edition explains all the new rules for social housing renters, private renters and homeowners starting from April 2023, including the annual uprating. It sets out the qualifying conditions for entitlement to universal credit and gives a detailed explanation of the housing costs element for renters and mortgage interest loans for homeowners.

You can amend the number of copies you wish to purchase during checkout.


Volume two – Guide to Housing Benefit 2023-2024

Price: £47.50 + P&P

Covers the UK rules about getting housing benefit towards social housing and private rent payments, and pension credit towards homeowners’ ground rent and service charges.

This edition explains all the new rules for social housing renters and private renters starting from April 2023, including the annual uprating.

You can amend the number of copies you wish to purchase during checkout.


2023-2024 bundles - save 25% when ordering the two books together

Price: £71.25 + P&P

Each bundle ordered will include one copy of each of the two 2023-24 volumes.

Ordering the two books together as a bundle saves 25% on the individual book prices.

You can amend the number of copies you wish to purchase during checkout.


If you have any queries, please call 0344 515 1155 or email publications@shelter.org.uk.