Grandparenting ends - Accommodation Benefit standard rates

The higher standard rate of Accommodation Benefit will be grandparented for any eligible student until one of the following occurs:

• the student's application on which they are getting the grandparented rate ends or
• the student has a change in circumstances and they are no longer eligible for the standard rate of Accommodation Benefit, this is when the student:
  • starts living in the same home as a parent or
  • moves into a home maintained by, or provided by a parents or
  • moves into social housing
• the student has a change in course which results in a new application or
• the student becomes eligible for a higher rate than the grandparented Accommodation Benefit rate while under the same application, due to a change in the student's:
  • address (extramural study only) or
  • campus location (intramural study only) or
• the student has a child enter their care and they qualify for the Sole Parent Accommodation Benefit rate under the same application

Grandparenting of the standard rate of Accommodation Benefit can only be paid to students on their current study application.

When the current study application period ends, so will the grandparenting.

The grandparented standard rate of Accommodation Benefit will end if the student:

• moves back into their parental home or
• moves to a home maintained by, or provided by their parents or
• moves into social housing

Students who are getting a standard rate of Accommodation Benefit and have a dependent child enter their care, will be transferred to the sole parent rate of Accommodation Benefit.

Once this happens, any grandparented standard rate of Accommodation Benefit will stop.

Note sole parents who do not qualify for a sole parent rate of Accommodation Benefit are not eligible for the standard rate of Accommodation Benefit.