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• Benefits

  Benefits It's important to make sure that you get all the help that you're entitled to. These pages give you information on benefits and tax credits if you are working or unemployed, sick or disabled

• Benefits - introduction

  Benefits - introduction Learn about the benefits you can get and how they are paid. If you are not happy with a decision, find out what you can do and how you can appeal. If you pay national

• Child Benefit

  Before you claim Check if you can get Child Benefit Help with your claim How to claim Child Benefit Check if a change affects your Child Benefit Child Benefit appeals Challenging a Child Benefit decision - mandatory reconsideration Appealing a Child Benefit decision at tribunal

• Housing Benefit

  Help with your Housing Benefit claim Check if you can get Housing Benefit Check how much Housing Benefit you can get Check if the Benefit Cap will affect your Housing Benefit How to claim Housing

• Benefit overpayments

  You might have been contacted by your benefit office because you've been paid too much. An overpayment can happen for many reasons, for example because: the benefit office made a mistake you didn’t

• Benefit calculators: what benefits can you get

  Depending on your situation, you can use the Turn2us,  Entitledto and Policy in Practice benefit calculators to check which benefits you can get.  You’ll need information about savings, income

• Check if the Benefit Cap will affect your Housing Benefit

  The Benefit Cap is a limit to the total amount of money you can get from benefits. If your benefits would add up to more than the limit, your Housing Benefit will be reduced. If you get the housing

• Challenging benefit decisions

  Challenging a decision by the DWP or HMRC Challenging a benefit decision - mandatory reconsideration Appealing against a benefit decision Complaining about benefits Complaining about benefits services

• Disability discrimination and welfare benefits

  If you're disabled, public authorities like the Jobcentre or the Department for Work and Pensions mustn’t discriminate against you when they make decisions about your benefits. Read this page to find

• Payment of benefits and tax credits

  Most benefits are usually paid by direct credit transfer straight into an account. This includes: benefits from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) tax credits Child Benefit Guardian’s