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• Benefits
  • A-Z of Benefits
  • Beginner's Guide to Benefits
  • Benefits News and Changes
  • Who to contact to make a claim
  • Armed Forces
  • Bereavement
  • Carers
  • Education costs
  • Expecting or bringing up child
  • Housing costs
  • Illness, Injury and Disability
  • Migrants
  • People aged 60 and over
  • Prisoners
  • Social Fund
  • Working or looking for work
  • Young People
• Grants
• Managing Money
• Tax
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Benefits

Welfare benefits are paid to make sure that there is a minimum standard of living for everyone.

In this section you will find information about welfare benefits and tax credits and how you can work out which ones you might be entitled to.

• Benefits news and changes 

  Keep up to date with the latest news about welfare benefits, including changes to the benefits system.

• Beginner's guide to benefits

  Are you new to benefits? Our guide provides information on how the benefits system works and the steps you need to take when claiming benefits.

• Benefits subject groups

  We have put benefits and tax credits into subject groups, e.g. People aged over 60, to make it easier for you to search for information relevant to your particular situation.

• A-Z of benefits

  If you know the name of the benefit you would like to find out more about you can use our A-Z as a quick way to find the information sheet you want.

• Challenges and complaints

  If you have already made a claim for a benefit and would like information about challenging a decision or making a complaint, you may find this section useful.