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A Budgeting Loan is to help pay for essential things or services. These easy read guides explain how they work, who can apply and how to apply.
Detailed guidance about what Pension Credit is, how it's worked out, the eligibility rules and the application process.
A detailed guide to the assessment carried out to determine the capability for work or work related activity of ESA claimants (ESA214).
How to apply for a special payment if you claimed Income Support because of a disability or health condition instead of Employment and Support Allowance.
A Sure Start Maternity Grant can help with the costs of having a child. These easy read guides explain how it works, who can apply and how to apply.
Information about Pension Credit and the closure of Tax Credits for people over State Pension age.
Find out how to contact or make a payment to the National Recoupment Team.
This staff guidance explains the social security coordination arrangements between the UK and the EU under the EU Withdrawal Agreement.
What to do if you disagree with the amount of compensation recovered under the compensation recovery scheme after the claim is settled.
Resources for healthcare professionals to promote the special rules for end of life.
This document provides information on the 2 child payment limit for claimants of Income Support with dependants allowance.
British and Irish citizens and people with valid immigration status escaping the violence in Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Lebanon can claim benefits from the day they arrive in the UK.
Background information and guidance on the benefit expenditure and caseload tables.
Policies and statements for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits statistical summaries.
How to notify DWP to stop or restart deductions from benefits for fuel, water or rent arrears when a debtor starts or ends a ‘Breathing Space’.
This guide is for people who have been authorised, nominated or commissioned to make or review Budgeting Loan decisions.
This release strategy acts as the formal notice of changes to future releases of the income-related benefits: estimates of take-up publication.
If you lived abroad between 6 April 2010 and 5 April 2020 and feel adversely affected, due to when you first received notification on the removal of an ADI, you may be eligible for compensation.
Information and guidance on how to apply for Clothing Allowance.
How DWP manages the publication of fraud and error in the benefit system estimates.
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