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• Universal Credit

  Find out if you're eligible for Universal Credit, make an application and get advice on solving any problems you have.

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  • Before you apply for Universal Credit
  • Claiming Universal Credit
  • What you'll need to do on Universal Credit
  • While you're on Universal Credit
  • Problems with your payment
  • If you've been sanctioned

• What Universal Credit is

  What Universal Credit is and how it works - including how it's different from other benefits and what other benefits you can claim at the same time.

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• Reapply for Universal Credit

  Find out how to apply for Universal Credit again if you’ve had it in the past and now need to claim it again.

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• Applying for Universal Credit

  Get help claiming Universal Credit online. Find out more about the questions you need to answer and your ‘to-do list’.

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• How Universal Credit is paid

  How Universal Credit is paid differently from other benefits - including how to budget when you're on Universal Credit, how to ask for an advance payment and how to get financial help

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• Starting your Universal Credit claim

  How to apply for Universal Credit online, phone or in person, and how to start your application.

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• Get an advance payment of Universal Credit

  How to get some of your benefit in advance if you don’t have enough money to get by while you’re waiting for your first Universal Credit payment.

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• Getting a Universal Credit budgeting advance

  How to a Universal Credit budgeting advance - a loan for emergency and one-off expenses. Who’s eligible, how much you'll get, how to apply.

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• Moving to Universal Credit from other benefits

  Find out how Universal Credit will affect you if you're already getting other benefits.

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• Get help applying for Universal Credit

  Get help making a claim for Universal Credit - from the application through to your first correct payment.

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