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• Moving from other benefits

  Universal Credit is replacing 6 ‘legacy benefits’. Find out how moving to Universal Credit will affect you if you're already getting other benefits.

• How to claim bereavement benefits

  Find out how to claim Bereavement Support Payment. For deaths before April 2017, check if you can get Widowed Parents Allowance

• Complaining about benefits services

  Complaining about benefits services. You should consider complaining if the people dealing with your benefits claim or issue have handled it badly.

• Payment of benefits and tax credits

  Check how benefits and tax credits are paid - usually by direct credit transfer into bank, building society or Post Office card accounts. Find out about the Payment Exception Service if you can't use an account.

• Benefits, services and your immigration status

  Information about benefits, services and your immigration status. Check if your immigration status lets you get benefits and healthcare.

• Scottish benefits- rules about living in Scotland

  Find out the rules about living in Scotland for Social Security Scotland benefits, including habitual residence and going abroad temporarily.

• Check if you have the right to reside for benefits

  You might need to show you have a right to reside in the UK to claim some benefits. Find out what information you need and which benefits are affected.

• Getting benefits if you’ve recently moved to the UK

  Check how to show you’re habitually resident, pass the ‘past presence test’ or pass the ‘3-month living in test