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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
- Get childcare: step by step
- Guardian's Allowance
- Healthy Start
- Help paying for childcare
- Maternity Allowance
- Maternity pay and leave
- Parents' Learning Allowance
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Universal Credit
Detailed guidance
Benefits
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How benefits work
Benefit calculators, how payments work, changes of circumstance, benefit fraud and appeals
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Universal Credit
Applying, signing into your account, and help with housing, disability, health conditions and unemployment
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Tax credits
Getting Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, managing your tax credits and when tax credits stop
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Jobseeker's Allowance and low income benefits
Getting JSA, Income Support, Budgeting Loans and other help if you’re on a low income
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Carers and disability benefits
Help for disabilities including Personal Independence Payment, Carer's Allowance, and Employment and Support Allowance
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Child Benefit
Getting and managing your Child Benefit
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Benefits for families
Getting maternity pay, help with childcare and free school meals
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Heating and housing benefits
Getting Housing Benefit, Winter Fuel Payment, Cold Weather Payment and other help for housing costs
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Death and benefits
Getting Widowed Parent's Allowance, Bereavement Payment and other help when someone dies
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