Payments for the Homes for Ukraine scheme
Monthly thank you payments are £350 a month.
We will contact you to arrange your payments when:
- all of the checks have been completed
- we've received a satisfactory DBS certificate for each eligible person in your home
- you've told us that your guests have arrived.
Sponsors who are in (or later form) a close family relationship with their guests will not be eligible for payment.
If you haven't heard from us and we have already completed your checks, we will be in touch soon and payments will be backdated to the date your guests arrived. You'll receive a payment for each calendar month where you have hosted for more than 16 days.
Ukraine Permission Extension
If your guests choose to apply for Ukraine Permission Extension at the point of their Homes for Ukraine visa a new payment application can be made.
The exceptions to this new payment application are:
- sponsors or hosts whose guests are close family members and are currently in receipt of thank you payments whilst their guests hold Homes for Ukraine visas will no longer be eligible for thank you payments once they make a new payment claim.
- the guest is paying rent
- the guest is working for the sponsor or host or providing services in lieu of rent
- the sponsors accommodation would not meet the minimum statutory expectation for housing as set out in the Housing Act 2004.