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If you don’t have enough to live on while you wait for your first payment you may be able to get an advance of your first Universal Credit payment.
There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that most people aged 16 to under State Pension age can get - benefits affected, benefit cap amount.
Claiming Universal Credit if you're self-employed - eligibility, reporting your earnings, start up periods
Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.
How Universal Credit claimants can give consent for their information to be shared with another person or organisation to help them deal with their claim.
Statistics on the number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work.
Official experimental statistics on the number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work.
A form healthcare professionals fill in if DWP asks for information in connection with Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit.
Official statistics on the number of people on Universal Credit with a health condition or disability restricting their ability to work.
Uses latest data to provide information on claimants of Employment and Support Allowance, the health element of Universal Credit and PIP.
This guide explains changes to Universal Credit limited capability for work payments from 3 April 2017.
Universal Credit can include help with housing costs - paying your landlord, what to do if you cannot pay your rent, other help you can get.
More detailed information about New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for stakeholders and claimants.
Information for employers on how Universal Credit and earnings are worked out, employers' responsibilities and support available.
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