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Attendance Allowance helps pay for your personal care if you've reached State Pension age and are disabled - rates, eligibility, apply, claim form AA1.
Help if you're living with a health condition or disability. Includes Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
How to access social care, and support if you, or someone you care for is blind.
Find out more information on expenses, payments and benefits that are non-taxable.
Reasons why your benefit payments could change, report changes in your circumstances while claiming benefits
The Prime Minister has outlined a package of sweeping reforms to put work at the heart of welfare and deliver on his “moral mission” to give everyone who is able to work, the best possible chance of staying in, or...
What to do if you go into hospital and you get benefits
Leaders from across business and civil society have welcomed the Government strengthening employment protections.
Incapacity Benefit is help if you could not work because of an illness or disability before 31 January 2011 - it's being replaced with Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
Government to reform disability benefits system to ensure they’re targeted at those most in need.
The Pension Service was merged with the Disability and Carers Service in 2008, to create the Pension, Disability and Carers Service. It is now part of the Department of Work and Pensions.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - how and when to claim, rates, eligibility.
National and Official statistics on the main benefits administered by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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