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
  3. Where to get help and advice about benefits
  4. Benefit sanctions and what to do about them
  5. What to do if your benefits are cut
  6. Support while waiting for benefit payments
  1. The benefit cap
  2. Personal Independence Payment – an introduction
  3. Cuts to Housing Benefit for social housing tenants
  4. Moving from DLA to PIP – coping with income changes
  5. Moving from DLA to PIP – what to do if your award is reduced or stopped
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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. Claiming Child Benefit
  3. Benefits you can claim when you're pregnant or have a baby
  4. Child Tax Credit
  5. Financial support if you or your child has a disability
  6. Benefits you can claim if you're studying and have a baby
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Universal Credit

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

  1. Universal Credit explained
  2. Who is affected by Universal Credit
  3. Joint Universal Credit payments for couples
  4. Choosing a bank account for your benefit payments
  5. How to budget for a monthly benefit payment
  6. Getting to grips with paying your rent
  1. Claiming tax credits
  2. Budget planner
  3. A guide to Universal Credit for the self-employed
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