European Union (EU) Settled Status Scheme - I have applied for EU Settlement Scheme and I'm still waiting for a decision

If you have made a valid application to the EU Settlement Scheme for settled or pre-settled status and you are still waiting for a decision from the Home Office (or if your application was refused and you are waiting for a decision from the Home Office on your appeal or administrative review of that decision) you have access to many benefits.

However, if the benefit you want to claim requires you to have a right to reside (for example Universal Credit, Pension Credit, Housing Benefit or Child Benefit) then you will need to show that you have a free movement right to reside.

You can access other benefits that do not require a right to reside, provided you satisfy the conditions for those benefits, including the presence and residence tests.

While you have an outstanding valid application (or appeal or administrative review against a refusal) to the EU Settlement Scheme, you are not defined as a ‘person subject to immigration control’ and so you are not excluded from any benefits for that reason. 

You can access contributory benefits  like New Style Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) and New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) if you have paid enough National Insurance contributions.