Apply for Council Tax Reduction when you already receive Housing Benefit Introduction Please only use this form if you're already receiving Housing Benefit. You don't need to provide any more documents unless your circumstances have changed. If you don't receive Housing Benefit and want to claim Council Tax Reduction, please complete our full application form. Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction Privacy Notice The proper handling of personal information is very important to the delivery of our services. To ensure that the council treats personal information correctly, we seek to adhere in full to the requirements of data protection law. This privacy notice has therefore been produced to explain as clearly as possible how we process your personal data. Why we collect your personal information Southwark Council Benefit service collects personal data for the purpose of processing applications for Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Reduction. We are required to collect this information under the following legislation-Social Security Administration Act 1992Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992Housing Benefit Regulations 2006Local Government Finance Act 1992Local Government Finance Act 2012The Fraud Act 2006How we use your information Information held by Southwark Benefits service is used in the assessment of claims for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Reduction. In order to improve the service we deliver we may also use your information to communicate with you and provide services appropriate to your needs. This could include assistance with applications for the following services;a blue badgea disabled facilities granta discretionary housing paymenthelp with supporting people servicesresidential caredomiciliary care - such as day care, home helps and mealsfree school mealsfood support and other support programmesWe may also use information to identify and support people who are at risk of becoming homeless or help families who may benefit from the Troubled Families programme.Information provided to the Benefits service may also be used to assess liability for Council Tax or to assist in recovery of unpaid Council Tax or Housing Benefit Overpayments. Who has access to your data? To process claims and fulfill our duties as a benefit provider we may need to share information with other organisations we work with or those who provide services on our behalf. These include:The Department for Work and PensionsHM Revenue and CustomsOther councilsProcessing partnersAuditorsIT and software providersOn occasions, your information may be accessed by contracted IT providers. Access by IT providers will only be for reasons of technical support, and any viewing of data will be incidental to this. There are other specific situations where we may be required to disclose information about you, such as:Where the Council is required to provide the information by lawWhere disclosing the information is required to prevent or detect a crime, including fraudWhere disclosure is in the vital interests of the person concernedYour data protection rights You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:The right to be informed about the collection and use of your dataThe right to obtain access to your data,/li>The right to have any inaccurate or incomplete data rectifiedThe right to have personal data erased in specific circumstancesThe right to restrict processing of data in specific circumstancesThe right to object to processing of your data in certain circumstancesYou also have a right to make a complaint about our handling of your personal data to the Information Commissioner's Office. Further information If you’d like to know more about the information we hold, or the way we use it, please email the data protection officer at Southwark Council on dpo@southwark.gov.uk or write to Data Protection Officer PO Box 68763, London, SE1P 4DJ. Further information about data protection law and how it applies to you can be found on the Information Commissioner's Office website. Information about data collected via online forms /Apply-for-Council-Tax-Reduction-when-you-already-receive-Housing-Benefit/Introduction/