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, a parent, a young person, an older person or a veteran. There is also information about council tax and housing costs, national insurance, payment of benefits and problems with benefits.
Universal Credit
Find out if you're eligible for Universal Credit, make an application and get advice on solving any problems you have.
Child Benefit
Find out if you're eligible for Child Benefit and how to apply. Check how changes in your and your child's circumstances will affect your Child Benefit. Find out what to do if you want to appeal a Child Benefit decision.
Support for mortgage interest (SMI)
Find out if you can get SMI, how to apply and how other changes in your life will affect your SMI payments.
Claiming benefits if you're from the EU
Find out if you can claim benefits if you’re from the EU or European Economic Area (EEA) and you live in the UK.
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.
Coronavirus – getting benefits if you’re self-isolating
Check what benefits to claim if you can’t work because you’re self-isolating.
British and Irish citizens
Whether or not a British or Irish citizen needs to satisfy the conditions of the Habitual Residence Test when returning to the UK from abroad.