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Sign in to your student loan repayment account - check your balance, make regular or one-off repayments, or let SLC know if your details have changed

Universal Credit is replacing 6 other benefits with a single monthly payment if you're out of work or on a low income - eligibility, how to prepare.

• What Universal Credit is

  Universal Credit is a payment to help with your living costs. It’s paid…

• Eligibility

  You may be able to get Universal Credit if you’re on a low income or need…

• What you'll get

  Universal Credit is paid monthly. How much you get depends on: your…

• How your wages affect your payments

  If you or your partner are working, how much Universal Credit you get will…

• How you're paid

  Universal Credit is paid once a month, usually into your bank, building…

• How to claim

  You can apply for Universal Credit online. You need to create an account…

• Get an advance on your first payment

  If you need help to pay your bills or cover other costs while you wait for…

• Your claimant commitment

  To get Universal Credit payments, you’ll need to accept an agreement…

• Report a change of circumstances

  You need to report changes to your circumstances so you keep getting the…

• Financial help and support

  If you need financial support, you can get help and advice from the…

How to set up or manage a child maintenance arrangement, including what to do if a parent does not pay, how to contact the Child Maintenance Service, and signing in to your account.

• What child maintenance is

  Child maintenance covers how your child’s living costs will be paid when…

• Eligibility

  Your child needs to be under 16 - or under 20 if they are in full-time…

• How to apply

  You can either arrange child maintenance: privately between parents, if…

• Making and receiving payments

  If you use the Child Maintenance Service, they will work out your child…

• Sign in to your account

  Sign in to your Child Maintenance Service account to: report a change in…

• Disagreements about parentage

  If you or the other parent in your child maintenance case denies that…

• Changes you need to report

  There are some changes you must tell the Child Maintenance Service about…

• Contact the Child Maintenance Service

  Sign in to your online account If you already have a Child Maintenance…

• Complaints and appeals

  Make a complaint Follow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)…

• Make a private arrangement

  You can make a private arrangement with your child’s other parent about…

Maternity or Paternity Leave or Pay, or Maternity Allowance for parents

Apply for your first adult British passport - who can apply, how long it takes, costs, how to apply, documents you need, passport interviews

Find out how to register a birth - who can register, birth certificates

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.

Who has parental responsibility for looking after children, and how to apply for parental responsibility if you were unmarried to the mother or are not on the birth certificate

You can start Shared Parental Leave (SPL) and Statutory Shared Parental Pay (ShPP) if you're eligible and you or your partner ends your maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL and spli…

Apply for British citizenship if you have a British parent - who's eligible, fees and how to apply

Your Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave - eligibility, what you get, how to claim.

Check if you're automatically a British citizen - it depends on where and when you were born and your parents' immigration status.

Permission from parents and courts to take a child on holiday abroad and avoid abduction

Sure Start Maternity Grant is a £500 payment to help with the costs of a new baby: what you'll get, eligibility and how to apply (claim form SF100).

The different types of British nationality explained - British citizen, British overseas territories citizen, British overseas citizen, British subject, British national (overseas), British protected person

Employer guide to Statutory Paternity Pay or Leave - entitlement, eligibility, notice period, forms SC3 and SPP1, recover statutory pay.

Calculate an employee’s maternity pay (SMP), paternity or adoption pay, relevant period and average weekly earnings

What to expect if you're sent to prison - prison rules and regulations, healthcare and education, prisoner rights

Your employee can take Shared Parental Leave (SPL) if they're eligible and they or their partner ends their maternity or adoption leave early - eligibility, entitlement, starting SPL, splitting blocks of leave and recor…

Correct the original registration with the register office or GRO - find out what corrections can be made, who can apply, how long it takes, what they look like