Welfare reform

Services

UC50 form: Universal Credit capability for work questionnaire
Only fill in this capability for work questionnaire (UC50) if you’re asked to do so, this is not a claim form.
Universal Credit: Landlord request for a managed payment or rent arrears deduction
If a tenant is having difficulty paying their rent, apply for a Managed Payment to Landlord using the Apply for a Direct Rent Payment service to request payment of rent from a tenant’s Universal Credit.
Carer's Allowance claim form
Use this form to claim Carer’s Allowance by post if you can’t claim online.
Carer's Credit application form
An application form for Carer's Credit to print and fill in with a pen.
Capability for work questionnaire
Only fill in this capability for work questionnaire (ESA50) if you’re asked to do so – this is not a claim form.

Universal Credit advances
- Detailed guide
- 20 October 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
New Style Employment and Support Allowance
- Detailed guide
- 11 November 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
Applying for a Discretionary Housing Payment
- Guidance
- 14 April 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
The Personal Independence Payment (PIP) toolkit
- Detailed guide
- 4 February 2021
- Department for Work and Pensions
Fit note: guidance for patients and employees
- Guidance
- 1 July 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions

Better integration now and a long-term vision needed for working age contributory benefits
- 24 October 2022
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Press release
Treatment of Historical Institutional Abuse payments in means-tested benefits
- 10 December 2021
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Correspondence
Looking to the long-term
- 10 February 2021
- Government Actuary's Department
- News story
Up-rating report 2021 – focus on the National Insurance Fund
- 19 January 2021
- Government Actuary's Department
- News story
Universal Credit: surplus earnings
- 29 May 2020
- Department for Work and Pensions and Social Security Advisory Committee
- Correspondence

Northern Ireland Universal Credit Statistics: August 2022
- 30 November 2022
- Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Official statistics
Out of work disability benefit reform
- 16 November 2022
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Independent report
SSAC Occasional Paper 26: The future of working age contributory benefits for those not in paid work
- 24 October 2022
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Independent report
Personal well-being in the UK, quarterly: April 2011 to June 2021
- 8 December 2021
- Office for National Statistics
- Official statistics
Personal well-being in the UK: April 2020 to March 2021
- 15 October 2021
- Office for National Statistics
- National statistics

Claimant Commitment
- 8 October 2019
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 16 April 2019
Work and Health Programme statistics: publication proposals
- 29 November 2018
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 17 September 2018
Moving claimants to Universal Credit from other working age benefits
- 5 November 2018
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 20 August 2018
The Bereavement Benefits (Remedial) Order 2022: Explanatory memorandum
- 15 December 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Policy paper
Local Housing Allowance: uprating equality analysis April 2020
- 6 October 2020
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Impact assessment

SSAC FOI releases 2023
- 9 March 2023
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Foi release
SSAC FOI releases 2022
- 17 November 2022
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Foi release
Recovery data for the 2008 Diffuse Mesothelioma Scheme
- 16 June 2022
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Transparency
SSAC FOI releases 2021
- 17 December 2021
- Social Security Advisory Committee
- Foi release
Social Fund account 2015 to 2016
- 7 July 2016
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Corporate report

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