Notification of Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Reduction

Council Tax Reduction

Once Council Tax Reduction has been awarded it will be paid to your Council Tax account. You will receive a revised Council Tax bill which will show the reduction awarded. This will tell you if you still have money to pay towards your Council Tax bill.

If you wish to see the details of the calculation for Council Tax Reduction you will need to register for online notifications. Register for online notifications below.

Housing Benefit

You will receive a notification letter when your Housing Benefit is assessed. You can now register to receive your Housing Benefit notifications by email instead of post. Register for online notifications below.

Register for online notifications

It is important to remember the following:

You must check your email account regularly
You must tell us straight away, in writing, if you change your email address, or if your account becomes inactive
You must check your notifications carefully and always tell us straight away, in writing, if any of your circumstances are different to what is in the letter
You must adjust your spam filters so that any e-mail where the senders e-mail address includes “@wokingham.gov.uk” will not be treated as spam, and instead is delivered to your inbox
E-mails are not a secure method of communication as they may be intercepted, and my lead to criminals obtaining information about you. To minimise this risk, we will not include sensitive information such as National Insurance Numbers, bank account numbers, or dates of birth in the letter

You will be able to view your letters in a PDF (Portable Document Format) file. You will need a PDF viewer, like Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them.

How to register

To register you'll be asked to provide:

Name
National Insurance Number
Date of Birth
Current claim reference
E-mail Address

E-notification Important Information

Important information on subscribing to E-notifications:

It is your responsibility for maintaining a valid e-mail account to use the E-notification service
The accuracy and validity of the e-mail address that you provide is entirely your responsibility
Should your e-mail account ever become invalid or cease to be used or should you want the notifications sent to a different e-mail account, it is your responsibility to contact the Benefits Service straight away
You can contact us by email at benefits@wokingham.gov.uk
If an incorrect e-mail address is provided or is no longer operational resulting in the notification being delivered and returned to the Council, you will be automatically unsubscribed from the E-notifications service and the Council will revert to deliver paper based Housing Benefit notifications instead