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Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.
Housing Benefit can help you pay your rent if you’re unemployed, on a low…
You may get help with all or part of your rent. There’s no set amount of…
You’ll need to provide some information and evidence to support your claim…
Housing Benefit is being replaced by Universal Credit. Most people will…
You need to report a change of circumstances for you and anyone else in…
Housing Benefit will not cover heating, hot water, energy or food. If you…
What happens if you’re suspected of benefit fraud - benefits that can and cannot be stopped if you commit fraud
Sign in to your account, report changes, find out about overpayments, or appeal a decision. Includes existing Universal Credit and tax credits claims.
Benefits you can claim if you go abroad and countries with social security arrangements with the UK
Guidance on getting extra payments to help with the cost of living if you’re entitled to certain benefits or tax credits.
If you're terminally ill and might not live longer than 12 months, you may be able to get some benefits at a higher rate.
Guidance and forms for claiming Child Benefit. Including how to claim, Guardians Allowance, payment dates, repaying overpayments, reporting changes, and complaints.
Proof of Child Benefit - what you can use.
Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim
How to use a cost benefit analysis to evaluate your digital health product.
Appeal to the independent Social Security and Child Support tribunal about a benefit decision: what happens at the hearing, getting a decision, if you do not agree
There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that most people aged 16 to under State Pension age can get - benefits affected, benefit cap amount.
How and when to report changes that affect your Child Benefit payments, such as earnings going above £50,000. How to update a change of address or bank details.
An annual publication covering statistics on benefit rates, their annual uprating, and indices of prices and earnings in Great Britain.
What company benefits you pay tax on - including company cars, low-interest loans and accommodation, and what company benefits are tax-free, such as childcare
You have the right to get a copy of the information that is held about you. This is called the 'right of access'.
As an employer, you might need to report any expenses or benefits you provide to employees - tax and National Insurance (NI) payments
Challenge a benefit decision - how to ask for a mandatory reconsideration, evidence you'll need, deadlines and what happens next.
Reasons why your benefit payments could change, report changes in your circumstances while claiming benefits
Which small or 'trivial' benefits employers must pay tax and National Insurance on, and when to report them to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
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