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Current LHA rent levels (2025/26)

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Local Housing Allowance weekly rents effective from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026

Your LHA rent level depends on the number of bedrooms in your home, and on which of the eight Broad Rental Market Areas (BRMAs) your home is located.

Please note that Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rents for 2025/26 will remain frozen at their 2024/25 levels (see below).

More information is available on How we calculate LHA rent levels.

BRMA regions map







The map shows the eight BRMAs in Northern Ireland, but to be certain of which BRMA you are in, check your postcode against the following list:

Belfast BRMA: BT1-BT16

Lough Neagh Upper BRMA: BT29, BT36-BT46, BT80

Lough Neagh Lower BRMA: BT25, BT62-BT67, BT69-BT71

North BRMA: BT51-BT57

North West BRMA: BT47, BT48, BT49, BT82

South BRMA: BT32, BT34, BT35, BT60, BT61, BT68

South East BRMA: BT17-BT24, BT26, BT27, BT28, BT30, BT31, BT33

South West BRMA: BT74-BT79, BT81, BT92, BT93, BT94

 

LHA rents 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026

  • Shared Room Rate per week: £75.75
  • 1 bed: £139.34
  • 2 bed: £155.77
  • 3 bed: £173.08
  • 4 bed: £219.76
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £71.08
  • 1 bed: £96.91
  • 2 bed: £118.56
  • 3 bed: £133.76
  • 4 bed: £141.62
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £83.49
  • 1 bed: £97.34
  • 2 bed: £121.15
  • 3 bed: £137.31
  • 4 bed: £150.25
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £74.22
  • 1 bed: £119.79
  • 2 bed: £123.32
  • 3 bed: £133.48
  • 4 bed: £147.62
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £88.21
  • 1 bed: £99.23
  • 2 bed: £118.20
  • 3 bed: £133.34
  • 4 bed: £153.70
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £65.49
  • 1 bed: £110.08
  • 2 bed: £124.61
  • 3 bed: £138.46
  • 4 bed: £164.81
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £79.70
  • 1 bed: £109.62
  • 2 bed: £144.23
  • 3 bed: £162.48
  • 4 bed: £199.12
  • Shared Room Rate per week: £71.28
  • 1 bed: £88.68
  • 2 bed: £105.16
  • 3 bed: £113.44
  • 4 bed: £133.27
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Previous LHA rent levels (2024/25)