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    • A Migrant
    • Adult Disability Payment and Other Help
      • Other help for people getting ADP
      • I get ADP, what else can I get?
      • I get the daily living component of ADP, what else can I get?
      • I get the enhanced rate daily living component of ADP, what else can I get?
      • I get the standard rate mobility of ADP, what else can I get?
      • I get the enhanced rate mobility of ADP, what else can I get?
    • Adult Disability Payment Scotland
      • What is Adult Disability Payment Scotland?
      • Can I get Adult Disability Payment Scotland?
      • How much Adult Disability Payment Scotland will I get?
      • How do I claim Adult Disability Payment Scotland?
      • How do I challenge an Adult Disability Payment decision?
      • Transferring from Personal Independence Payment to Adult Disability Payment Scotland
      • Adult Disability Payment and other benefits
    • Apprenticeships and benefits
      • What is an apprenticeship?
      • Can apprentices claim benefits?
      • How will apprenticeship earnings be treated?
      • Apprentices: Work-related requirements under Universal Credit
      • Will I get Child Benefit if my child is doing an apprenticeship?
    • Armed Forces Compensation Scheme
      • What is the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
      • Can I apply to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
      • How much can I get from the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
      • How do I apply to the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme?
      • How do I challenge an Armed Forces Compensation Scheme Decision?
      • Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and Motability
    • Armed Forces Independence Payment
      • What is an Armed Forces Independence Payment?
      • Can I get an Armed Forces Independence Payment?
      • How much Armed Forces Independence Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim an Armed Forces Independence Payment?
      • How do I challenge an Armed Forces Independence Payment decision?
    • Asylum Seekers
      • Who is an asylum seeker in the UK?
      • Benefits and asylum seekers
      • Asylum Support
      • If your partner has a different immigration status
      • After the asylum decision
      • Further information and advice
    • Attendance Allowance
      • What is Attendance Allowance?
      • Can I get Attendance Allowance?
      • How much Attendance Allowance will I get?
      • How do I claim Attendance Allowance?
      • How do I challenge an Attendance Allowance decision?
    • Basic State Pension
      • What is Basic State Pension?
      • Can I get Basic State Pension?
      • How much Basic State Pension will I get?
      • What if I don't qualify?
      • How do I claim Basic State Pension?
      • How do I challenge a Basic State Pension decision?
    • Benefit Cap
      • What is the Benefit Cap?
      • Am I affected by the Benefit Cap?
      • How much is the Benefit Cap?
      • What are my options if I am affected by the Benefit Cap?
      • What Government help is available?
      • How do I challenge a Benefit Cap decision?
    • Benefit Changes Timetable
      • Benefit Changes Timetable 2025
      • Benefits Changes Timetable 2024
      • Benefits Changes Timetable 2023
      • Benefit Changes Timetable 2022
      • Benefit Changes Timetable 2021
      • Benefit Changes Timetable 2020
    • Benefits Overpayment
      • What is a Benefit Overpayment?
      • What should I do if I think that I have been overpaid?
      • Will I have to repay the overpayment?
      • How is an overpayment recovered?
      • Civil Penalties for benefit overpayments
      • What if I don't think I've been overpaid?
      • How do I avoid an overpayment of benefit?
      • Housing Benefit Overpayments
      • Council Tax Support Overpayments
    • Bereaved
    • Bereavement Support Payment
      • What is Bereavement Support Payment?
      • Can I get Bereavement Support Payment?
      • How much Bereavement Support Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim Bereavement Support Payment?
    • Best Start Foods - Scotland
      • What is Best Start Foods?
      • Can I get Best Start Foods?
      • How much is Best Start Foods worth?
      • How do I claim Best Start Foods?
    • Best Start Grants Scotland
      • What is a Best Start Grant?
      • Pregnancy and Baby Payment
      • Early Learning Payment
      • School Age Payment
      • How do I claim a Best Start Grant?
      • How do I challenge a Best Start Grant decision?
    • Bringing up a child
      • Bringing up a child
      • Expecting a child
      • Back to School support
    • Budgeting Loan/Advance
      • What is a Budgeting Loan/Advance?
      • Can I get a Budgeting Loan/Advance?
      • How much Budgeting Loan/Advance will I get?
      • How do I claim a Budgeting Loan/Advance?
      • After you apply for a Budget Loan / Advance
      • How do I challenge a Budgeting Loan/Advance decision?
    • Care homes and benefits
      • Care homes and benefits
      • Benefits that can be paid if you live in a care home
      • Benefits that stop being paid if you live in a care home
      • Benefits to help pay your rent, Council Tax or mortgage/home loan
      • Carer's Allowance or Carer Support Payment Scotland (for someone looking after you)
      • Benefits for your children when you live in a care home
      • Your partner's benefits when you live in a care home
      • Benefits for your child when they live in a care home
      • Frequently asked questions
      • Further information
    • Care Leavers and Benefits
      • Who is a Care Leaver?
      • Can I Claim Benefits if I am a Care Leaver?
      • Other Help for Care Leavers
    • Carer
    • Carer Support Payment (Scotland)
      • What is Carer Support Payment?
      • Can I get Carer Support Payment?
      • How much Carer Support Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim Carer Support Payment?
      • How do I challenge a Carer Support Payment decision?
    • Carer's Allowance
      • What is Carer's Allowance?
      • Can I get Carer's Allowance?
      • How much Carer's Allowance will I get?
      • How do I claim Carer's Allowance?
      • How do I challenge a Carer's Allowance decision?
    • Carer's Credits
      • What are Carer's Credits?
      • Can I get Carer's Credits?
      • How much Carer's Credits will I get?
      • How do I claim Carer's Credits?
      • How do I challenge a Carer's Credit decision?
    • Challenging a Budgeting Loan decision
      • What are my options?
      • Ask for an explanation
      • Have the decision looked at again
      • Have the decision looked at by the Independent Case Examiner’s office (ICE)
    • Challenging a Child Benefit or Guardian's Allowance decision
      • What are my options?
      • Ask for an explanation
      • Have the decision looked at again
      • Appeal against the decision
    • Challenging a Council Tax Support decision
      • What are my options?
      • Ask for an explanation
      • Have the decision looked at again
      • Appeal against the decision
    • Challenging a Housing Benefit decision
      • What are my options?
      • Ask for an explanation
      • Have the decision looked at again
      • Appeal against the decision
    • Challenging a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Decision
      • Options for challenging a PIP decision?
      • Check a PIP decision
      • Ask for Mandatory Reconsideration
      • Get Mandatory Reconsideration Notice
      • Appeal to Tribunal
      • Complain about a PIP decision
      • Tell your MP
      • PIP Judicial Review
    • Challenging a Tax Credit decision
      • What are my options for challenging a Tax Credit decision?
      • Ask for an explanation about Tax Credits
      • Have the Tax Credit decision looked at again
      • Appeal against the Tax Credits decision
    • Challenging an Employment and Support Allowance Decision
      • What are my options?
      • Ask for an explanation
      • Have the decision looked at again
      • Appeal against the decision
    • Challenging Department for Work and Pensions benefit decisions
      • What are my options?
      • Ask for an explanation
      • Have the decision looked at again.
      • Appeal against the decision
    • Child Benefit
      • What is Child Benefit?
      • Can I get Child Benefit?
      • How much Child Benefit will I get?
      • How do I claim Child Benefit?
      • How do I challenge a Child Benefit decision?
      • High income Child Benefit Tax Charge
    • Child Disability Payment Scotland
      • What is Child Disability Payment Scotland?
      • Can I get Child Disability Payment?
      • How much Child Disability Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim Child Disability Payment?
      • Extra help if your child is awarded Child Disability Payment
      • How do I challenge a Child Disability Payment decision?
    • Child Tax Credit
      • What is Child Tax Credit?
      • Can I get Child Tax Credit?
      • How much Child Tax Credit will I get?
      • How do I claim Child Tax Credit?
      • How do I challenge a Child Tax Credit decision?
      • Child Tax Credit and Pensioners
    • Claiming Benefits
      • What are benefits?
      • Checking benefit entitlement
      • How to claim
      • How long does it take to process a claim?
      • Payment Exception Service
      • Challenges and complaints
      • Change in circumstances
    • Claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
      • Start your Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim
      • Get Personal Independence Payment (PIP) documents
      • Fill in the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) form
      • Send in the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) form
      • Get ready for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) medical assessment
      • Going to the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) medical assessment
      • Getting a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decision
      • When do Personal Independence Payment (PIP) payments start?
      • Review or renew a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claim
    • Cold Weather Payment
      • What is a Cold Weather Payment?
      • Can I get a Cold Weather Payment?
      • How much Cold Weather Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim a Cold Weather Payment?
      • How do I challenge a Cold Weather Payment decision?
    • Complaints about your benefits claim
      • When can I make a complaint?
      • Who do I complain to?
      • What might happen as a result of my complaint?
      • What if I am unhappy with the response to my complaint?
    • Cost of Living
      • I can't heat my home
      • Struggling with Energy and Water Bills
        • Energy Price Cap
    • Cost of Living Support
      • What cost of living support is available?
      • Extra help for people on the lowest incomes
      • Extra help for disabled people
      • Extra help for people over 66
      • Cost of living support FAQs
    • Council Tax Discounts
      • What is a Council Tax Discount?
      • Single Person Discount
      • Students
      • People with Disabilities
      • Carers
    • Council Tax Support/ Reduction
      • What is Council Tax Support?
      • Council Tax Support England
      • Council Tax Support Scotland
      • Council Tax Support Wales
    • Debt
    • Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - children
      • What is Disability Living Allowance (DLA)?
      • Can my child get DLA?
      • How much Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will my child get?
      • How do I claim Disability Living Allowance (DLA)?
      • How do I challenge a DLA decision?
    • Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults
      • What is Disability Living Allowance (DLA)?
      • Can I get Disability Living Allowance (DLA)?
      • How much Disability Living Allowance (DLA) will I get?
      • How do I claim Disability Living Allowance (DLA)?
      • How do I challenge a Disability Living Allowance (DLA) decision?
    • Disabled Facilities Grants (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
      • Who does it help?
      • How do I make a claim?
    • Disabled, ill or injured
      • Disabled, ill or injured
      • Armed Forces (Serving/Veteran)
      • Terminal Illness
    • Discretionary Assistance Fund
      • What is the Discretionary Assistance Fund?
      • Can I get help from the Discretionary Assistance Fund?
      • How do I apply to the Discretionary Assistance Fund?
      • How do I challenge a Discretionary Assistance Fund decision?
    • Discretionary Housing Payment
      • What is a Discretionary Housing Payment?
      • Can I get a Discretionary Housing Payment?
      • How much Discretionary Housing Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim a Discretionary Housing Payment?
      • How do I challenge a Discretionary Housing Payment decision?
    • Education Maintenance Allowance EMA - Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
      • What is Education Maintenance Allowance?
      • Who does it help?
      • Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA): England
      • Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA): Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
      • How much does Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) pay?
      • How do I claim?
    • Emergency Information
      • Benefits not enough to meet my needs
      • Facing an unexpected cost
      • Don't have enough to eat
      • Can't pay my rent
      • I'm worried about being evicted
      • Can't pay my mortgage
      • Funeral costs I can't afford
      • Disability, illness or mental health condition and I am struggling at home
      • Don't feel safe at home
    • Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
      • What is Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
      • Can I get Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
      • How do I claim Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
      • How much Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) will I get?
      • Repeat claims for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
      • How do I challenge an Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) decision?
    • Employment and Support Allowance (ESA): Permitted Work
    • Employment and Support Allowance time limit
    • Energy schemes
      • Extra help for 2024/25
      • Extra help for 2023/24
      • Help from your energy company
      • Priority Services Register (Energy companies)
      • Warm Home Discount Scheme (England, Scotland, Wales)
      • Benefits - Winter Fuel Payments and Cold Weather Payments
      • Help with energy efficiency measures
      • Energy schemes: Useful resources
    • European Union (EU) Settled Status Scheme
      • What is the EU Settlement Scheme?
      • I have EU settled status. What does this mean for my benefit entitlement?
      • I have EU pre-settled status. What does this mean for my benefit entitlement?
      • I have applied for EU Settlement Scheme and I'm still waiting for a decision
      • I haven't applied for the EU Settlement Scheme
      • I have arrived in the UK with leave to enter as a holder of an EU Settlement Scheme Family Permit
      • Further information and advice
    • Example guide
      • Example guide first page
      • Example guide second page
      • Example guide third page
      • Example guide fourth page
    • First Tier Tribunal appeals process
      • What is the First Tier Tribunal?
      • How to start an appeal to the First Tier Tribunal
      • What happens when your appeal form is received?
      • Response from the Benefit or Tax Credit office
      • The appeal hearing
      • Oral hearing procedure
      • Paper hearing
      • Possible outcomes of tribunals
      • If you still think the decision is wrong
    • Foster carers and benefits
      • What is a foster carer?
      • Can I claim Universal Credit?
      • Can I claim Contributory/New Style Employment and Support Allowance or Jobseeker's Allowance?
      • Can I claim Pension Credit?
      • Can I get legacy benefits?
      • Can I get any other benefits?
      • Advice and Support
    • Fraud Investigations
      • What is Benefit or Tax Credit fraud?
      • How do fraud investigations work?
      • What happens if I am found to have committed fraud?
      • Civil penalty or prosecution?
      • Will I lose my benefit or tax credit?
    • Free school meals
    • Full time students and benefits
      • Who is a full-time student for benefit purposes?
      • Can full-time students claim Universal Credit?
      • Student income
      • How much Universal Credit will I get?
      • Can full-time students claim Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) or Income Support?
      • Can full-time students get Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)?
      • Can full-time students get Housing Benefit?
      • Can full-time students claim disability benefits?
      • Can full-time students get help with Council Tax?
      • Full time students and other benefits
      • Benefits during time out from study
      • Further Information
    • Funeral Expenses Payment
      • What is a Funeral Expenses Payment?
      • Can I get a Funeral Expenses Payment?
      • How much Funeral Expenses Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim a Funeral Expenses Payment?
      • How do I challenge a Funeral Expenses Payment decision?
    • Funeral Support Payment - Scotland
      • What is a Funeral Support Payment Scotland?
      • Can I get Funeral Support Payment Scotland?
      • How much Funeral Support Payment Scotland will I get?
      • How do I claim a Funeral Support Payment Scotland?
    • Getting Into Work
      • UK and Multiple Nation Wide Schemes
      • England - Work Schemes and Help
      • Scotland - Work Schemes and Help
      • Wales - Work Schemes and Help
      • Northern Ireland - Work Schemes and Help
      • Help from Charitable Funds
      • Self Employment National Schemes
      • Disabled people and work
      • Transport Costs National Schemes
    • Guardian's Allowance
      • What is Guardian's Allowance?
      • Can I get Guardian's Allowance?
      • How much Guardian's Allowance will I get?
      • How do I claim Guardian's Allowance?
      • How do I challenge a Guardian's Allowance decision?
    • Habitual Residence Test
      • Which benefits does the habitual residence test apply to?
      • How to satisfy the habitual residence test?
      • Who is exempt from the Habitual Residence Test?
      • What to do if you have failed the Habitual Residence Test
    • Hardship Payments
      • What is a Hardship Payment?
      • Jobseeker’s Allowance - Hardship Payments
      • How much can I get from Jobseeker's Allowance hardship payments?
      • How do I claim Jobseeker's Allowance Hardship Payments?
      • Employment and Support Allowance Hardship Payments
      • How much can I get from Employment and Support Allowance hardship payments?
      • How do I claim Employment and Support Allowance Hardship Payments?
      • Universal Credit Hardship Payments
      • How much can I get from a Universal Credit hardship payment?
      • How do I claim Universal Credit hardship payments
      • Hardship Payments and Claiming Other Benefits or Tax Credits
      • Challenging a hardship payment decision
    • Healthy Start Scheme - England, Wales, Northern Ireland
      • What is Healthy Start Scheme?
      • Am I eligible for Healthy Start Scheme?
      • How much will I get from Healthy Start Scheme?
      • How do I claim Healthy Start Scheme?
    • Help from the local council if you are a carer
      • Who does it help?
      • What help is provided?
      • Do I have to pay for services provided by the local council?
      • How do I claim?
      • Further information
    • Help from the local council if you are ill, injured or have a disability
      • Who does it help?
      • Do I have to pay for services provided by the local council?
      • How do I claim?
      • If you have been in hospital
      • Further information
    • Help with Childcare Costs
      • Free Early Education and Childcare
      • Help with Childcare Costs when You are Working
      • Help with Childcare Costs when Starting Work or Looking for Jobs
      • Help with Childcare Costs when Studying
      • Childcare Costs: Frequently Asked Questions
    • Help with health costs
      • What is Help with health costs?
      • Can I get Help with health costs?
      • What help does it provide?
      • How do I make a claim for Help with health costs?
      • How do I challenge a Help with health costs decision?
      • Northern Ireland: Help with health costs
    • Help with housing costs
    • Hospital and benefits
      • Benefits in Hospital
      • Benefits that stop being paid if you go into hospital
      • Non-means tested benefits
      • Carers
      • Means-tested benefits when you go into hospital
      • Statutory Sick Pay and Working Tax Credit
      • Benefits to help pay your rent, Council Tax or mortgage/home loan
      • Your partner's or carer's benefits when you go into hospital
      • Benefits for your children
      • Benefits for a child who is in hospital
      • Claiming benefits when you go into hospital
      • Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Adult Disability Payment and Attendance Allowance
      • Help with the cost of travel to hospital
      • Discharge from hospital
      • Financial help
    • Housing Benefit (England, Scotland and Wales)
      • What is Housing Benefit?
      • Can I get Housing Benefit?
      • How much Housing Benefit will I get?
      • How do I claim Housing Benefit?
      • How do I challenge a Housing Benefit decision?
    • Housing Benefit (Northern Ireland)
      • What is Housing Benefit?
      • Can I get Housing Benefit?
      • How much Housing Benefit will I get?
      • How do I claim Housing Benefit?
      • How do I challenge a Housing Benefit decision?
    • Immigration status and Benefits
      • Check if you are defined as a ‘Person Subject to Immigration Control’
      • If your partner has a different immigration status
      • If your child is a person subject to immigration control
    • Income Support
      • What is Income Support?
      • Can I get Income Support?
      • How much Income Support will I get?
      • How do I claim Income Support?
      • How do I challenge an Income Support decision?
    • Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
      • What is Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?
      • Can I get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit?
      • How much Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) will I get?
      • How do I claim Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB)
      • How do I challenge an Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit decision?
    • Job Start Payment - Scotland
      • What is the Job Start Payment - Scotland?
      • Can I get the Job Start Payment - Scotland?
      • How much is the Job Start Payment - Scotland?
      • How do I claim Job Start Payment - Scotland?
      • How do I challenge a Job Start Payment - Scotland?
    • Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
      • What is Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)?
      • Can I get Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)?
      • How much Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) will I get?
      • How do I claim Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)?
      • How do I challenge a Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) decision?
    • Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanctions
      • What are Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanctions?
      • How much will a Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanction be?
      • How long will a Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanction last?
      • Good reason why a Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) sanction should not be applied
      • Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) Hardship Payment help
    • Maternity Allowance
      • What is Maternity Allowance?
      • Can I get Maternity Allowance?
      • How much Maternity Allowance will I get?
      • How do I claim Maternity Allowance?
      • How do I challenge a Maternity Allowance decision?
    • National insurance contributions (NIC)
      • What is national insurance?
      • What is a national insurance number?
      • How do I get a national insurance (NI) number?
      • What are national insurance contributions (NIC)?
      • What is a national insurance record?
      • What benefits do my national insurance contributions (NIC) pay for?
      • Frequently Asked Questions
    • New State Pension
      • What is New State Pension?
      • Can I get New State Pension?
      • How much New State Pension will I get?
      • What if I don't qualify?
      • How do I claim New State Pension?
      • How do I challenge a New State Pension decision?
    • Overpayments under the Universal Credit system
      • What is an overpayment under the Universal Credit system?
      • What should I do if I think I have been overpaid?
      • What will happen if I have been overpaid?
      • Will I have to repay the overpayment?
      • How is an overpayment recovered?
      • Civil penalties for benefit overpayments
      • What if I don't think I've been overpaid?
    • Part time students and benefits
      • Who is a part-time student for benefit purposes?
      • Can part-time students claim Universal Credit?
      • Can part-time students claim JSA or Income Support?
      • Can part-time students get help with housing costs?
      • Can part-time students claim disability benefits?
      • Part-time students and other benefits
      • Benefits during time out from study
      • Further Information
    • Pension Age Disability Payment (Scotland)
      • What is Pension Age Disability Payment?
      • Can I get Pension Age Disability Payment?
      • How much Pension Age Disability Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim Pension Age Disability Payment
      • How do I challenge a Pension Age Disability Payment decision?
      • Transferring to Pension Age Disability Payment from other benefits
    • Pension and Retirement
    • Pension Credit
      • What is Pension Credit?
      • Can I get Pension Credit?
      • How much Pension Credit will I get?
      • How do I claim Pension Credit?
      • How do I challenge a Pension Credit decision?
    • Personal Independence Payment
      • What is Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
      • Can I get Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
      • How much Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will I get?
      • How do I claim Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
      • When does Personal Independence Payment (PIP) stop?
      • How do I challenge a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) decision?
      • When will I move from Disability Living Allowance (DLA) to Personal Independence Payment (PIP)?
    • Personal Independence Payment - PIP and Other Help
      • Other help for people getting PIP
      • I get PIP, what else can I get?
      • I get the daily living component of PIP, what else can I get?
      • I get the enhanced rate daily living component of PIP, what else can I get?
      • I get the enhanced rate mobility of Personal Independence Payment ( PIP), what else can I get?
      • I get the standard rate mobility of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), what else can I get?
    • Personal Independence Payment - PIP Assessment
      • What is the PIP test?
      • Make food or cook
      • Feed yourself
      • Getting treatment
      • Washing and bathing
      • Going to toilet
      • Dressing and undressing
      • Speaking
      • Reading and understanding
      • Socialise
      • Handle money
      • Plan and follow a journey
      • Move around
    • Presence and Residence Tests
      • What are the Presence and Residence Tests?
      • Which Presence or Residence Tests do I have to pass?
      • What are the Presence and Past Presence Tests?
      • Living in the UK for three months
      • What is Ordinary Residence?
    • Prisoner
    • Prisoners - Partner in prison
      • Benefits - Partner in prison
      • Child benefits - Partner in prison
      • Help with housing costs - Partner in prison
    • Prisoners on release
      • Temporary licence
      • Home curfew
      • Benefits when released from prison
      • Other help
    • Prisoners on remand
      • Introduction
      • Benefits you can't get - On remand
      • Benefits suspended - On remand
      • Help with housing costs - On remand
      • Child benefits - On remand
    • Prisoners serving a sentence
      • Introduction
      • Benefits you can't get - Serving a sentence
      • Help with housing costs - Serving a sentence
      • Child benefits - Serving a sentence
      • In hospital - Serving a sentence
      • National Insurance - Serving a sentence
    • Refugees and others in the UK for protection
      • Refugee leave and other protection
      • Can I claim benefits?
      • Exemptions from some barriers to benefits
      • Other support
      • Further information and advice
    • Right to Reside
      • Which benefits does the right to reside test apply to?
      • Who has a right to reside?
      • Free movement rights to reside
      • If you have pre-settled status and no free movement rights to reside
      • Further information and advice
    • Scottish Child Payment
      • What is Scottish Child Payment?
      • Can I get Scottish Child Payment?
      • How much Scottish Child Payment will I get?
      • How do I claim a Scottish Child Payment?
      • How do I challenge a Scottish Child Payment Decision?
    • Scottish Welfare Fund
      • What is the Scottish Welfare Fund?
      • Can I get help from the Scottish Welfare Fund?
      • How do I apply to the Scottish Welfare Fund?
      • What if I don't agree with a Scottish Welfare Fund decision?
    • Self employment and benefits
      • Am I employed or self employed?
      • Do I need to register as self employed?
      • What benefits can I claim if I am self employed?
      • Self employed people and national insurance
      • How do I calculate my hours of work - self employment?
      • How do I calculate my earnings - self employment?
      • What if I have less work than usual?
      • Can I get Working Tax Credit if I am self employed?
      • Universal Credit and self employment
      • Self employment and benefits: Frequently asked questions
    • Severe Disability Premium
      • What is a Severe Disability Premium?
      • Can I get a Severe Disability Premium?
      • Severe Disability Premium and Universal Credit
      • How much Severe Disability Premium will I get?
      • How do I claim a Severe Disability Premium?
      • How do I challenge a Severe Disability Premium decision?
    • Short Term Benefit Advance
      • Can I get a Short Term Benefit Advance?
      • How much Short Term Benefit Advance will I get?
      • How do I claim a Short Term Benefit Advance?
      • How do I challenge a Short Term Benefit Advance decision?
    • State Pension age changes
      • What is State Pension age?
      • What is happening to State Pension age?
      • What is my State Pension age?
      • State Pension age and benefits
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      • Health inequalities gap wider than 10 years ago
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      • Her Majesty the Queen
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      • Huge rise in workplace pregnancy discrimination
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      • Is housing segregation pitting rich against poor?
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      • Jamie Grier appointed Director of Development
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      • Jobcentre Plus support rolled out to schools
      • JRF launch five point plan to solve UK poverty
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      • Labour sets out economic plan at party conference
      • Last year, we awarded £2,984,122.31 in grants
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      • Lord Carey criticises tax credit cuts
      • Low earners get Help to Save
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      • Meet Jacqui
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      • Millions across UK are living without appliances
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      • Millions of children face risk of poverty
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      • Miricyl: Financial insecurity and mental health
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      • More than 300,000 people in Britain are homeless
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      • Move from DLA to PIP leaving many struggling
      • MPs approve Chancellor’s Budget
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      • Mum in landmark win over bereavement benefits
      • My response to the Sewell Race report
      • National Co-Production Week: Christelle's Story
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      • National Living Wage (NLW): effect on pay perks
      • Nearly £1.3bn of Carer's Allowance is unclaimed
      • Nearly 80% of self-employed live in poverty
      • New 16-17 Saver Railcard to be launched
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      • New non-state pension rules start
      • New report shows more working families in poverty
      • New step in the Benefits Calculator
      • News Review: George Osborne and tax credit cuts
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      • News Review: Unemployment falls to seven-year low
      • No Cold Homes celebrity auction closes today
      • No computer? No Benefits?
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      • October's Grant Spotlight - Railway Benefit Fund
      • Older people doing more to manage their finances
      • One in four may be unable to pay rent if jobless
      • One in four struggles to eat regularly
      • Only one in six ever secure a better paid job
      • Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
      • Our Covid Response Fund: an evaluation
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      • Over 50% of Workless Homes have a Disabled Adult
      • Parliament debates "period poverty"
      • Paul Maynard MP blog on LWAS
      • Pension Credit: Are you entitled to claim?
      • Pensioner poverty on rise
      • Period poverty: "Many resort to using old fabric"
      • Personal Independence Payment roll out continues
      • Philip Hammond's Autumn Statement in full
      • PIP failures mean independent living is at risk
      • PM has the words but does he have the policies
      • Poverty in Wales increases for working families
      • Prime Minister announces 'sink estates' action
      • Private renters and home improvements
      • Private renters unaware about Universal Credit
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