Benefits for families

A to Z

• Apply for free school meals
• Benefits calculators
• Care to Learn
• Carer's Credit
• Child Trust Fund
• Childcare Grant
• Claim if you were injured while serving in the armed forces
• Contact Sure Start
• Guardian's Allowance
• Healthy Start
• Help paying for childcare
• Maternity Allowance
• Maternity pay and leave
• Parents' Learning Allowance
• Sure Start Maternity Grant

Detailed guidance

• Support services for military and defence personnel and their families

Benefits

A to Z

• Benefits entitlement

  Includes when and how benefit payments are made, benefits calculators and benefit fraud

• Benefits for families

  Includes Child Trust Funds, childcare and the Sure Start Maternity Grant

• Carers and disability benefits

  Includes Disability Living Allowance, Carer's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance

• Child Benefit

  Information about eligibility, claiming and when Child Benefit stops

• Death and benefits

  Includes Widowed Parent's Allowance, Bereavement Payment, Funeral Payment

• Heating and housing benefits

  Includes Winter Fuel Payment and Cold Weather Payment

• Jobseeker's Allowance and low income benefits

  Includes Income Support, Budgeting Loans and Pension Credit

• Tax credits

  Includes Working Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and when tax credits stop

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Childcare and parenting
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions