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  • Sign in to your Universal Credit account

    Sign in to your Universal Credit account - report a change, add a note to your journal, see your payments and do other tasks

  • Check your State Pension forecast

    Find out how much State Pension you could get (your forecast), when you could get it and how you could increase it

  • Cost of Living Payment 2022

    Guidance on getting an extra payment to help with the cost of living if you were entitled to certain benefits or tax credits in 2022.

  • Universal Credit

    Universal Credit is replacing 6 other benefits with a single monthly payment if you're out of work or on a low income - eligibility, how to prepare.

  • Cost of Living Payments 2023 to 2024

    Guidance on getting extra payments to help with the cost of living if you’re entitled to certain benefits or tax credits.

  • Check your State Pension age

    Work out your State Pension age and Pension Credit qualifying age

  • Benefits calculators

    Find out what benefits you could get, how much you could get and how to claim

  • Check your National Insurance record

    Find out if you've paid enough National Insurance to qualify for the full State Pension - check gaps, contributions and credits, get a National Insurance statement, call the helpline.

  • Find a job

    Search and apply for jobs in Great Britain using ‘Find a job’.

  • Pension Credit

    Pension Credit is extra money for pensioners to bring your weekly income up to a minimum amount - what you'll get, apply, eligibility

  • Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

    Personal Independence Payment (PIP) replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) - how and when to claim, rates, eligibility.

  • Cold Weather Payment

    Cold Weather Payment - what you'll get, eligibility and how to find out if your area is due a payment

  • The new State Pension

    How to get and claim your State Pension, State Pension age - for men born on or after 6 April 1951 and women born on or after 6 April 1953.

  • Carer's Allowance

    Apply for Carer's Allowance - money to help you look after someone who needs to be cared for. Apply online or use form DS700.

  • Over 8 million families in the UK to receive new Cost of Living Payment this Spring

    Over 8 million families in the UK will continue to receive direct financial support from Government, with the first of five Cost of Living Payments – worth £301 – hitting bank accounts this spring.

  • Child Maintenance Service

    How to set up or manage a child maintenance arrangement, including what to do if a parent does not pay, how to contact the Child Maintenance Service, and signing in to your account.

  • Voluntary National Insurance

    National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.

  • Department for Work and Pensions

    The home of Department for Work and Pensions on GOV.UK. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department it administe…

  • Calculate your child maintenance

    Use this calculator to work out an amount of child maintenance for your children.

  • Millions of low-income households to get new Cost of Living Payments from Spring 2023

    Millions of the lowest-income households across the UK will get up to £1,350 from the Government in 2023/4 to help with the cost of living.