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- Check what benefits and financial support you can get
- Find out about the Cost of Living Payment - including future payments and how to report if a payment is missing
- Find out about help you can get from your local council (Household Support Fund)
- Check if you’re getting the minimum wage
- Apply for Marriage Allowance
- Apply for Carer’s Allowance
- Apply for support with savings if you’re on a low income (Help to Save)
- Claim tax relief on work-related expenses
- Check if you’re eligible for the Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF) in Wales - for support with essential costs or living independently
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Apply for Universal Credit
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Apply for Pension Credit if you’re on a low income
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Apply for Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) if you’re unemployed
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Support with managing your money
Cost of living support
Find out what support is available to help with the cost of living. This includes income and disability benefits, bills and allowances, childcare, housing and travel.
Announcements
You may get Cost of Living Payments between spring 2023 and spring 2024 if you're a pensioner or you get low-income or disability benefits. Find out about the Cost of Living Payment.
You may get calls, emails or messages that are pretending to be from a government service or an energy bill support scheme. If you get a message asking for your personal details (for example, bank details or passwords) this could be a scam. Report anything you think is suspicious.
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- Check what benefits and financial support you can get
- Find out about the Cost of Living Payment - including future payments and how to report if a payment is missing
- Apply for a free or discounted TV Licence if you're over 75, blind or in residential care
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Apply for Universal Credit if you’re disabled
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Apply for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
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Support with living costs if you’re disabled
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Support with home improvements and equipment if you’re disabled
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Support to get or stay in work
- Apply for Access to Work in England, Scotland and Wales - support at work if you have a physical or mental health condition or disability
- Find advice about starting or staying in work in Northern Ireland - for support if you have a health condition or disability
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Support with travel costs if you’re disabled
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Support if your child is disabled
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Support with your utility bills
- Find out how the Energy Price Guarantee limits your energy prices
- Find out about the Cost of Living Payment - including future payments and how to report if a payment is missing
- Find out how the Energy Bills Support Scheme lowers your energy bills - including how to claim if you’ve got a prepayment meter
- Find out about the Winter Fuel Payment and Pensioner Cost of Living Payment - for winter 2022 to 2023
- Find out about the Wales fuel support scheme - ends 31 January 2023
- Find out about the Warm Home Discount Scheme - opens 14 November 2022
- Apply for the Cold Weather Payment
- Find out how to understand and reduce your energy bills on the Citizens Advice website
- Find out how to reduce your water bill and financial support you may be able to get
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Support with your TV and internet bills
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Support with your Council Tax
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Support with your prescriptions and health costs
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Apply for a Budgeting Loan if you’re claiming benefits
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- Check what benefits and financial support you can get
- Check what help you could get with childcare costs
- Apply for Child Benefit
- Apply for Maternity Allowance
- Apply for support with childcare costs for children 11 or under (Tax-Free Childcare)
- Claim back childcare costs if you get Universal Credit
- Find out about the Scottish Child Payment for children under 16
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Support with childcare for children aged 2 to 4
- Apply for free childcare for children aged 2 in England
- Apply for free childcare for children aged 2 to 4 in Scotland
- Apply for 15 hours free childcare for children aged 3 to 4 in England
- Apply for 30 hours free childcare for children aged 3 to 4 in England
- Apply for free childcare for children aged 3 to 4 in Wales
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Support with your school costs (for example, equipment and uniforms)
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Support with school meal costs
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Support with school transport costs
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Support with your childcare costs if your child is disabled
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Support with food and milk for your child
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Support with your maternity costs
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- Check what benefits and financial support you can get
- Find out about support with housing costs if you get Universal Credit
- Apply for a Discretionary Housing Payment
- Apply for support with interest payments on a mortgage or home improvement loan
- Contact your council for help with housing costs and Council Tax
- Check if you’re eligible for the Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF) in Wales - for support with essential costs or living independently
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Check if you’re eligible for Housing Benefit
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Support with your rail costs
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Support with your bus costs
- Apply for an older person’s bus pass in England - if you're state pension age
- Apply for an older person’s bus pass in Wales - if you’re aged 60 years or over
- Apply for an older person’s bus pass in Scotland - if you’re aged 60 years or over
- Apply for an older person’s bus pass in Northern Ireland - if you’re aged 60 years or over
- Apply for a disabled person’s bus pass in England
- Apply for a disabled person’s bus pass in Scotland
- Apply for a disabled person’s bus pass in Wales
- Apply for a disabled person’s bus pass in Northern Ireland
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- Find out how the Energy Bill Relief and Energy Bill Discount schemes limit the energy prices of your small business - runs between 1 October 2022 and 31 March 2024
- Find out about support to improve the energy performance of your business
- Find out about support with your energy bills on the Citizens Advice website
If you’re finding things difficult
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- Get support with money and mental health from the Mind website
- Find free warm spaces being offered by organisations in your area
- Call the Samaritans on 116 123 to talk to a trained volunteer anonymously for free. Welsh speakers can call 0808 164 0123 between 7pm and 11pm
- Text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 to message with a trained volunteer anonymously for free
- Call Refuge on 0808 2000 247 for support with domestic abuse
- Get urgent support with mental health on the NHS website