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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.
Universal Credit is a payment to help with your living costs. It’s paid…
You may be able to get Universal Credit if you’re on a low income or need…
Universal Credit is paid monthly. How much you get depends on: your…
If you or your partner are working, how much Universal Credit you get will…
Universal Credit is paid once a month, usually into your bank, building…
You can apply for Universal Credit online. You need to create an account…
If you need help to pay your bills or cover other costs while you wait for…
To get Universal Credit payments, you’ll need to accept an agreement…
You need to report changes to your circumstances so you keep getting the…
If you need financial support, you can get help and advice from the…
Student finance - student loans or student grants for tuition fees and living costs, extra help, student loan repayments.
You may be able to borrow money to help pay for university or college…
You can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan and Maintenance Loan if your course…
What you’re eligible for depends on when your course starts. If your…
You may be able to get a loan if your part-time course has a ‘course…
Check on the student finance calculator to see what extra help you might…
Whether you qualify for student finance depends on: your university or…
Find out how to apply for student finance. Parents or partners of students…
Self Assessment tax returns - deadlines, who must send a tax return, penalties, corrections and returns for someone who has died.
Self Assessment is a system HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uses to collect…
You must send a tax return if, in the last tax year (6 April to 5 April),…
You must register for Self Assessment if you have to send a tax return and…
You must tell HMRC if you believe you no longer need to send a tax return.…
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) must receive your tax return and any money…
You’ll get a penalty if you need to send a tax return and you miss the…
You can make a change to a tax return after you filed it, for example…
If you need help with Self Assessment, you can: appoint someone to fill in…
If you’re the ‘personal representative’ (an executor or administrator) for…
Advice for people who commission, fund, deliver and evaluate health outreach programmes.
…In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.
Check a vehicle's details, tax and SORN status and expiry dates on the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency (DVLA) database - online and telephone enquiries
Check the MOT history of a vehicle from 2005 onwards, including if it passed or failed, its mileage and why it failed, download MOT test certificate
The guide to VAT rules and procedures.
Advice and resources to help students prepare for their industry placements
Information on structures, roles and support.
Template and guidance notes for the general fund revenue account budget (RA).
Latest information and actions from the Education and Skills Funding Agency for academies, schools, colleges, local authorities and further education providers.
Apply for your first provisional driving licence from DVLA online to drive a car, motorbike or moped.
CC News provides essential regulatory information for charity trustees and their advisers.
Forms and guidance notes for the general fund revenue account outturn (RO).
The home of Student Loans Company on GOV.UK. We are a non-profit making government-owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK.
These bulletins provide information about ethnic minority employment, including research, case studies and strategic and practical advice.
The Coal Authority seeks to consider biodiversity and ecosystems in all our work in Wales.
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Rowland on 29 January 2016.
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