Verifying Income: Benefits

Benefits

You have the option to verify your income manually and in order for our referencing team to verify this, we require you to upload documents which provide evidence of this.

Please see below a list of acceptable documents for benefit(s) income and what you will need to upload.

In order to verify your benefit income we can accept an entitlement/award letter, latest 3 months’ fully itemised bank statements and for Universal credit, we also accept the latest 3 months’ pay statements.

Entitlement/award letter:
Must be and include the following information

• Confirmation of the benefit due and amount to be received
• Confirming the benefit income received over the latest financial year or the provisional payments for the current financial year
• Needs to be dated within 3 months accompanied with proof of latest payment (if applicable)
• A signed company letter

Bank statements:
Must be and include the following information

• 3 most recent (consecutive)
• Fully itemised
• Your full name
• Dates
• Rent payment
• Transaction ID
• Payer name

Universal Credit payslips:
Must be and include the following information

• 3 most recent (consecutive)
• Your full name
• Dates
• Payment amount