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Your Situation

Find welfare benefits and grants information that is relevant to you. Search by your situation or use the A-Z of benefits if you know the name of the benefit you want to find out about.

Your Situation
A-Z of Benefits

Adoption Pay - Statutory
Adult Disability Payment Scotland
Apprenticeships and Benefits
Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
Armed Forces Independence Payment
Armed Forces/Veteran - Your Situation
Asylum Seekers
Attendance Allowance

Benefit Cap
Benefit Changes Timetable
Benefit Overpayment
Bereaved - Your Situation
Bereavement Support Payment
Best Start Foods (Scotland only)
Best Start Grant (Scotland only)
Bringing up a child - Your Situation
Budgeting Loan decisions - Challenging
Budgeting Loan/Advance

Care homes and benefits
Care leavers and benefits
Carer - Your Situation
Carers - Help from the local council
Carers - travel costs
Carer's Allowance
Carer's Credit
Challenges and Complaints - Benefits and Tax Credits
Challenging a Budgeting Loan decision
Challenging a Child Benefit or Guardian's Allowance decision
Challenging a Council Tax Support decision
Challenging a Housing Benefit decision
Challenging a Personal Independence Payment decision
Challenging a Tax Credit decision
Challenging an Employment and Support Allowance decision
Challenging Department for Work and Pensions benefit decisions
Child Benefit
Child Benefit decisions - Challenging
Child Disability Payment Scotland
Child Tax Credit
Childcare Costs - Help with
Claiming Benefits
Cold Weather Payment
Complaints about your claim
Coronavirus Self Isolation Payment
Cost of Living Help
Council Tax Discounts
Council Tax Support decisions - Challenging
Council Tax Support/Reduction

Debt help
Department for Work and Pensions decisions - Challenging
Disability and work
Disability Living Allowance
Disability Living Allowance - children
Disabled Facilities Grants (England, Wales, Northern Ireland)
Disabled, ill or injured - Help from the local council
Disabled, ill or injured - travel costs
Disabled, ill or injured - Your Situation
Discretionary Assistance Fund
Discretionary Housing Payment

Emergency Information
Employment and Support Allowance
Employment and Support Allowance decisions - Challenging
Employment and Support Allowance: Permitted Work
Energy and Water (Struggling with Bills) - Your Situation
Energy efficiency - grants
Energy schemes
European Union (EU) Settled Status Scheme
Evictions: Where to go for information and advice
Expecting a child - Your Situation

First Tier Tribunal appeals process
Flexible Support Fund (FSF)
Food (England, Wales, Northern Ireland) - Expecting or Bringing Up a Child
Food (Scotland) - Expecting or Bringing up a Child
Food: I don't have enough to eat
Foster Carers and Benefits
Fraud Investigations
Free school meals
Full time students and benefits
Funeral costs
Funeral Payment
Funeral Support Payment - Scotland

Getting into Work
Guardian's Allowance
Guardian's Allowance decisions - Challenging

Habitual Residence Test
Hardship Payments
Health costs help
Healthy Start Food Vouchers (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Hospital and benefits
Housing Benefit (England, Scotland and Wales)
Housing Benefit (Northern Ireland)
Housing Benefit decisions - Challenging
Housing costs help

In work and on a low income - Your Situation
Incapacity Benefit
Incapacity benefits reassessment process
Income Support
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

Job Start Payment - Scotland
Jobseeker's Allowance
Jobseeker's Allowance Sanctions

Legacy Benefit
Looking for work - Your Situation

Maternity Allowance
Maternity Grant - Sure Start (England, Wales and Northern Ireland only)
Maternity Pay - Statutory
Migrant - Your Situation

National insurance contributions (NIC)
Nationals of non-European Economic Area (EEA) countries

Older person - Your Situation
Overpayment of Benefits
Overpayment of Tax Credits
Overpayments under the Universal Credit System

Part time students and benefits
Paternity Pay - Statutory
Payment Exception Service
Pension - Basic State
Pension - New State
Pension - State Pension Age Changes
Pension Credit
Personal Independence Payment
Personal Independence Payment decisions - Challenging
Presence and Residence Tests
Prisoner - Your Situation
Prisoners - Partner in prison
Prisoners on release
Prisoners on remand
Prisoners serving a sentence

Redundancy - Your Situation
Refugee Leave and Humanitarian Protection
Right to Reside Test

Scotland: Child Disability Payment
Scottish Child Bridging Payment
Scottish Child Payment
Scottish Welfare Fund
Self employment and benefits
Self Isolation Payment - Coronavirus
Severe Disability Premium
Shared Parental Leave and Pay
Short Term Benefit Advance
Sick with Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Starting or looking for work
State Pension age changes
State Retirement Pension
Statutory Adoption Pay
Statutory Maternity Pay
Statutory Paternity Pay
Statutory Sick Pay
Student Support
Studying (aged 16+) - Your Situation
Support for Mortgage Interest Loan
Sure Start Maternity Grant (England, Wales and Northern Ireland only)

Tax Credits decisions - Challenging
Tax Credits Overpayment
Travel costs: People with disabilities and carers
TV and Telephone costs

Universal Credit
Universal Credit - How to Claim
Universal Credit Advance
Universal Credit housing costs element
Universal Credit income and capital
Universal Credit Sanctions
Universal Credit System and Overpayments
Universal Credit timetable
Universal Credit transitional protection

Valuation Tribunal (England and Wales)

War Pensions Scheme
Warm Home Discount (England, Scotland, Wales)
Water and Energy (Struggling with Bills): Your Situation
Water schemes
Widowed Parent's Allowance
Winter Fuel Payment
Work - Getting into
Work - Starting or looking for
Work Capability Assessment
Working hours: benefits rules
Working Tax Credit

Young Carer Grant - Scotland
Young People (16-18) and Benefits
Young person (aged 16-18 years) - Your Situation

Your Situation

Cost of Living

Struggling with Energy and Water Bills

Redundancy

Armed Forces (Serving/Veteran)

Bereaved

Bringing up a child

Carer

Expecting a child

Disabled, ill or injured

In work - on a low income

Looking for work

Migrant

Older person

Prisoner

Studying (aged 16+)

Young person (aged 16-18)