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• Extra benefits and help you can get while on Attendance Allowance

  limits the amount of benefit payments a household can get. If you're already getting other benefits Your benefits or tax credits might go up if you get Attendance Allowance. Contact all the benefit

• How Universal Credit payments work if you're self-employed

  How Universal Credit payments work if you're self-employed This advice applies to England. See advice for See advice for Northern Ireland, See advice for Scotland, See advice for Wales Your Universal

• Getting Universal Credit if you’re sick or disabled

  getting, a benefit with an SDP. If you applied for Universal Credit before 27 January 2021, talk to an adviser. They can help you work out what you’re entitled to. Tell the DWP you have difficulty

• Getting help for your child from your local council

  affects your Housing Benefit check if a change affects your JSA check if a change affects your tax credits check if a change affects your Income Support check if a change affects your council tax reduction

• Get help with the cost of renting privately

  your rights as a lodger. Check if you can get Universal Credit for housing costs You might be able to get extra money to help you pay your rent. Lots of people miss out on benefits they’re entitled

• Check if you have to pay a debt

  you were moving, if the bill is for somewhere you used to live for any leaks, inside your property or outside, if you have a water meter If you've been contacted about a benefit or tax credit

• Carer's Allowance

  are giving regular and substantial care to disabled people. Carer’s Allowance is a taxable benefit and forms part of your taxable income. Check if you can get Carer’s Allowance You can usually get Carer’s

• Collecting information about your debts

  your debts, so you should also look at the information your creditors have sent you. Credit reports don’t normally show changes in the last 4 to 6 weeks. They also won’t show if you have: council tax

• Check how much Universal Credit you'll get

  for: housing children childcare You can also get them if: the DWP have told you to move to Universal Credit from other benefits - called ‘managed migration’ you can’t work because of sickness or disability

• Get help with the cost of living

  should have got it if you get a benefit based on your income - for example, Universal Credit, Pension Credit, or tax credits. If you get benefits based on your income If you were eligible, the government