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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.
Find out what support is available to help with the cost of living: income and disability benefits, bills and allowances, childcare, housing and travel.
How to claim the basic State Pension and how it's calculated - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953.
Check if you were contracted out of the Additional State Pension and what it means for your State Pension
National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.
Claiming Universal Credit if you're self-employed - eligibility, reporting your earnings, start up periods
Report changes in circumstances if you're claiming or have applied for Carer's Allowance - if you get a job, take a break from caring for someone, stop being a carer
Funeral Expenses Payment (also called Funeral Payment) to help pay funeral costs if you get certain benefits - eligibility, how to claim, form SF200
Bereavement Support Payment is money you can get if your partner dies - how it works, eligibility, what you'll get, how to claim.
Check what help you could get with childcare through Tax-Free Childcare, Free Childcare for Working Parents and free education and childcare for 2 to 4-year-olds.
If you have a health condition or disability, you’ll have an assessment to work out how much Universal Credit you can get and what you need to do in return.
Benefit payments - payment dates, bank holidays, if you do not have a bank account, Post Office card accounts.
Only fill in this capability for work questionnaire if you're asked to do so, this is not a claim form.
Who can get National Insurance credits and how to apply or when to pay voluntary National Insurance contributions.
Financial help if you're disabled - benefits, housing costs, council tax, vehicle tax exemption, TV Licence, motability schemes, VAT relief
Winter Fuel Payment helps older people with their heating bills - claim form, how much you get, eligibility
Appeal to the independent Social Security and Child Support tribunal about a benefit decision: what happens at the hearing, getting a decision, if you do not agree
Employers must fill in the SSP1 form when an employee is not entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) or when their SSP is ending.
See how the Child Maintenance Service works out maintenance and the rates they use
Challenge a benefit decision - how to ask for a mandatory reconsideration, evidence you'll need, deadlines and what happens next.
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