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You can get extra help and support from DWP to claim and manage your benefits or pension - for example if you have a disability or health condition.

Bursaries and scholarships from universities or colleges including hardship funds.

A disability premium is extra money if you’re under Pension Credit age and registered blind or getting certain benefits - what you get, eligibility, apply

• Overview

  Disability premiums are extra amounts of money added to your:…

• What you'll get

  You can get the disability premium on its own. You might get the severe or…

• Eligibility

  Disability premium payments can be added to your: income-related…

• How to claim

  You do not have to claim disability premium. If you’re eligible, it’s…

Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support

Additional State Pension, also known as the State Second Pension or SERPS, is extra money on top of your basic State Pension.

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

How the death of your partner affects your benefits, tax and pension. What you can claim and who to tell about your change of circumstances.

How benefits, charges and payments for judicial pension schemes of Chapter 2 members are affected by the public service pensions remedy (also known as McCloud).

• Updated: 5 October 2023

Financial help if you're disabled - benefits, housing costs, council tax, vehicle tax exemption, TV Licence, motability schemes, VAT relief

You can continue to get Housing Benefit for 2 weeks after you move to Universal Credit.

• Updated: 22 August 2019