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Ending the placement

When your guests have been in the UK for 4 months, we encourage you to speak to them about their next steps as the scheme is focussing on longer term sustainable accommodation.

You may want to:

  • continue hosting
  • agree to rent your room or 2nd home to them
  • help your guests find rented private accommodation.

Two months before your placement is due to end, speak to your support worker about what you're planning to do. They will then be able to support your guests if they're moving on, or arrange for your thank you payments to continue. You need to keep us informed, especially if your plans change.

Continue hosting

Thank you payments are still available to those hosting during the guests Homes for Ukraine VISA, and the UPE1 VISA (first 18 months). At the end of this VISA, thank you payments will stop.

Guests can apply for a further UPE VISA extension but hosting is not applicable with this extension.

Thank you payments are £350 a month until 31 December 2026. They will reduce to £100 per month from 1 January 2027

Renting private accommodation

Private accommodation and social housing is in high demand. Some councils are using the funding they have received from the government to help Ukrainian guests get private rented accommodation. This may include paying rent in advance or providing a deposit. If your guests are ready to rent but are struggling to get a place of their own, they should contact your local district or borough council to find out what support is available in your area.

Rent a room

If you would like to continue to support your guest, you could move to a more formal arrangement. For example, you could rent a room in your home through the government's Rent a Room Scheme or you may wish to rent another property that you own to your guest.

This would mean you may need to become a landlord, which would require you taking on more responsibility. If you charged rent, you would not be able to claim the thank you payment as well.

Further information is available on GOV.UK explaining how you can:

Tell us your guests have left

If your guests leave your home you need tell us your guests have left so that we can stop your payments.