Heating and housing benefits

Housing benefits

• Housing Benefit
• Apply for Council Tax Reduction
• Housing Benefit information from your council
• Housing costs and Universal Credit
• Appeal a Housing Benefit decision

Heating benefits

• Cold Weather Payment
• Warm Home Discount Scheme
• Winter Fuel Payment
• National Concessionary Fuel Scheme

Other help available

• Get a free or discounted TV licence
• Help paying bills using your benefits

Benefits

• How benefits work

  Benefit calculators, how payments work, changes of circumstance, benefit fraud and appeals

• Universal Credit

  Applying, signing into your account, and help with housing, disability, health conditions and unemployment

• Tax credits

  Getting Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, managing your tax credits and when tax credits stop

• Jobseeker's Allowance and low income benefits

  Getting JSA, Income Support, Budgeting Loans and other help if you’re on a low income

• Carers and disability benefits

  Help for disabilities including Personal Independence Payment, Carer's Allowance, and Employment and Support Allowance

• Child Benefit

  Getting and managing your Child Benefit

• Benefits for families

  Getting maternity pay, help with childcare and free school meals

• Heating and housing benefits

  Getting Housing Benefit, Winter Fuel Payment, Cold Weather Payment and other help for housing costs

• Death and benefits

  Getting Widowed Parent's Allowance, Bereavement Payment and other help when someone dies

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