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  • Get your State Pension

    What you need to do to get your State Pension online.

  • Contact Jobcentre Plus

    Jobcentre Plus contact details for claims, appointments, help finding a job and finding your nearest Jobcentre Plus

  • Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)

    Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) is an unemployment benefit you can claim while looking for work - how to apply online, New Style Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), eligibility, rates, rapid reclaim, JSA interview, when payme…

  • Contact the Pension Service

    Contact the Pension Service about State Pension eligibility, claims, payments and complaints, and to update your details (such as your address or bank details)

  • Apply for a National Insurance number

    Apply for your first National Insurance number - you must have the right to live and work in the UK.

  • Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)

    Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) money if you cannot work because of illness or disability - rates, eligibility, apply, assessment.

  • Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)

    Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.

  • Universal Credit advances

    If you don’t have enough to live on while you wait for your first payment you may be able to get an advance of your first Universal Credit payment.

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  • New rules require 180,000 on Universal Credit to increase working hours

    New rules meaning over 180,000 Universal Credit claimants will have to look for more work have come into force today (Monday 13 May), as the Government helps people progress in work and off welfare.

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  • Housing Benefit

    Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.

  • National Insurance: introduction

    National Insurance - your National Insurance number, how much you pay, National Insurance rates and classes, check your contributions record.

  • Report benefit fraud

    Report someone committing benefit fraud - you can report anonymously.

  • Benefit cap

    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.

  • Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults

    Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults - DLA rates, eligibility, changes because of Personal Independence Payment.

  • Voluntary National Insurance

    National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.

  • Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children

    Help for children under 16 with disabilities - DLA rate, eligibility, how to apply, claim form.

  • The basic State Pension

    How to claim the basic State Pension and how it's calculated - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953.

  • Budgeting Loans

    Interest-free loans from the government for some people on benefits: how to apply, check if you're eligible

  • Attendance Allowance claim form

    Use the Attendance Allowance claim form to apply for financial help for your personal care if you're disabled and State Pension age or older.

  • Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition

    Get help at work, including an Access to Work grant, if you have a disability or health condition - eligibility, how to apply.