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Guidance on getting extra payments to help with the cost of living if you’re entitled to certain benefits or tax credits.
Includes eligibility, appeals, tax credits and Universal Credit
Guidance and forms for claiming Child Benefit. Including how to claim, Guardians Allowance, payment dates, repaying overpayments, reporting changes, and complaints.
Benefit overpayments - how they happen, your responsibilities, making repayments to DWP Debt Management, appeal an overpayment decision, Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA)
Benefit payments - payment dates, bank holidays, if you do not have a bank account, Post Office card accounts.
How to tax a beneficial loan arrangement for a director or employee.
What to do if someone you know is having issues with their benefits: the ways you can manage their claim and how to call a helpline to ask for help.
Estimate the Child Benefit you've received and your High Income Child Benefit tax charge
Find out about the calculation of the company car benefit charge.
Statistics on households affected by the benefit cap.
Estimates of the take-up of the main income-related benefits by caseload and expenditure in Great Britain.
What happens to benefits if you or someone in your family goes to prison or is on remand.
How to report expenses and benefits you provide to employees or directors.
Find out when your Child Benefit payments are due, and payment dates for bank holidays.
Estimates of fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain.
Guidance for creditors – for example, utility suppliers and landlords – on how the deductions from benefit scheme works.
Matched data for training and benefits.
Information about Housing Benefit from your local council - apply to help pay your rent
Statistical notice about changes to the way DWP will publish statistics about benefit underpayments and how it will classify cases which fail to provide evidence.
If you're terminally ill and might not live longer than 12 months, you may be able to get some benefits at a higher rate.
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