Benefits

Find out what benefits you're entitled to and learn about Universal Credit

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Help with your benefits

Help with getting the right entitlements, where to get benefits support and advice and what to do if your payments are cut.

  1. Make sure you’re getting the right entitlements
  2. Benefit changes in the UK
  3. Where can I get help and advice about benefits
  1. Benefit sanctions and what to do about them
  2. What to do if your benefits are cut
  3. The benefit cap
  4. Personal Independence Payment – an introduction
  5. Cuts to Housing Benefit for social housing tenants
  6. Child Tax Credit
  7. Claiming tax credits
  8. Moving from DLA to PIP – coping with income changes
  9. Moving from DLA to PIP – what to do if your award is reduced or stopped
  10. What disability and sickness benefits can I claim?
  11. Benefit payment advances and Budgeting Loans
  12. Budgeting Loans and Budgeting Advances

Child Benefit

Find out how Child Benefit works and how much you might be entitled to claim.

  1. Child Benefit for people earning £50,000+
  2. How to claim Child Benefit
  3. What benefits can I claim when I'm pregnant or have a baby?
  1. Child Tax Credit
  2. Disability benefits and entitlements for children
  3. Grants and benefits if you're studying and have a baby

Universal Credit

Get ready for the new single monthly payment which has started to replace six existing benefits.

  1. Universal Credit explained
  2. How will Universal Credit affect me?
  3. Joint Universal Credit claims for couples
  1. Choosing a bank account for your benefit payments
  2. How to budget for a monthly benefit payment
  3. Universal Credit and paying rent
  4. Budget planner
  5. Universal Credit if you're self-employed
  6. Universal Credit for sick and disabled people
  7. Help to Save accounts FAQ
  8. Benefit payment advances and Budgeting Loans
  9. Universal Credit if you live in Scotland
  10. How do savings and lump sum pay-outs affect benefits?
  11. Money Manager tool for Universal Credit claimants
  12. Help to Save explained