Help with money, food and benefits

The councils' and national services for people short of money, and the free advice services the borough council points to. Who can get what is set by each scheme; their own pages say.

Tonight

• Help now: food, warm spaces, somewhere to sleep and crisis lines, with phone numbers and times, on Open Hastings

The councils

• Financial support available to residents ↗

  Hastings Borough Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

  The borough council's page says the Crisis and Resilience Fund started on 1 April 2026 and replaced the Household Support Fund and Discretionary Housing Payments; the borough council runs its housing payments and the county council the rest.

• Crisis and Resilience Fund ↗

  East Sussex County Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

• Benefits and grants ↗

  East Sussex County Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

• Cost of living support ↗

  East Sussex County Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

• Housing Benefit ↗

  Hastings Borough Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

• Council Tax Reduction ↗

  Hastings Borough Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

• At risk of homelessness ↗

  Hastings Borough Council · checked 11 Oct 2026

Free advice

• Citizens Advice 1066 (Hastings and Rother) ↗

  Citizens Advice 1066 · checked 11 Oct 2026

  The borough council's support pages link it.

• Debt and money ↗

  Citizens Advice · checked 11 Oct 2026

• Benefits calculators ↗

  GOV.UK · checked 11 Oct 2026

• Benefits ↗

  GOV.UK · checked 11 Oct 2026

Food and bills

• Find a food bank ↗

  Trussell · checked 11 Oct 2026

• If you can't pay your water bill ↗

  Southern Water · checked 11 Oct 2026

  The borough council's support pages link it.

Food banks, pantries and free meals, with the days and times on each one's own page, are on Help now.

Every outside link on this page was opened and read on the day shown beside it, most recently 11 Oct 2026. Each goes to the body that runs the service. Links not rechecked for 90 days are listed on data health.