• Benefits
  • A-Z of Benefits
  • Benefits Changes
    • Benefit Changes Timetable
    • Benefit Cap
    • Incapacity benefits changes
    • State Pension age changes
  • Universal Credit
  • Claiming and managing benefits
  • Who to contact to make a claim
  • Benefits Subject Groups
  • 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
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Benefits news and changes

This section contains news and updates on changes to the benefit system.

• Benefit changes timetable

  Find out more about changes to the benefit system or individual benefits and when they are expected to take place.

• Incapacity benefits changes

  Read our guide to the reassessment of incapacity benefits by the Department for Work and Pensions.

• Universal Credit

  Find out more about Universal Credit, a benefit for people of working age, which will replace a number of current benefits from 2013.

• Personal Independence Payment

  Learn more about Personal Independence Payment which may replace Disability Living Allowance in the next few years.

• State Pension age changes

  Find out how the changes to State Retirement Pension age will affect you.