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If you want to claim Universal Credit you must verify your identity. This guide for claimants and people supporting them explains how to do that.
More detailed information about New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for stakeholders and claimants.
Check who your health assessment provider is and how to contact them.
Guidance for Health Professionals carrying out PIP assessment activity and for those responsible for the quality of PIP assessments.
Your Universal Credit payments can be reduced if you do not complete your agreed work-related activities without a good reason. This is known as a sanction.
Information for existing and new Universal Credit claimants with more than 2 children.
Get help if you have difficulties claiming benefits and pensions because of a disability or health condition.
How to get help to understand and make a Universal Credit claim, and get help managing your claim.
Send a question to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministerial correspondence team.
If you’re in a couple where one of you is State Pension age, and you get a Migration Notice, you both need to move to Universal Credit as your benefits have ended or will end soon.
The Universal Credit Landlord Portal allows social rented sector (SRS) landlords to verify rent, support tenants and manage payments online.
You might receive an additional payment to help you move to Universal Credit, if you receive a Migration Notice letter.
These easy read guides explain how you can get help from Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and how to claim it.
This guidance explains the rights of UK nationals in the EU, the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland to benefits and pensions.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
If you claim Jobseeker's Allowance, you must inform us if you or your partner do any type of paid or unpaid work.
This guidance explains what is needed to become Disability Confident Committed, or a Disability Confident Employer or Leader.
Alternative Payment Arrangements for Universal Credit claimants who cannot manage their single monthly payment.
Send medical evidence to support a benefit claim made with the Special Rules for end of life (SR1 form)
Back to work programmes to help Universal Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance claimants move nearer to, or into, work.
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