Check what financial support you can get. From Universal Credit to pensions, tax and managing debt, find clear guidance on money and benefits.
Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
Universal Credit
- Universal Credit explained: who can claim, how to apply, and what you’ll get
- How the Universal Credit housing element works and how much you’ll get
- LCWRA and LCW: Universal Credit disability elements explained
- Universal Credit carer’s element and childcare costs: rates and how to claim
- Managing your Universal Credit claim: the journal, reporting changes, and getting help
- Universal Credit sanctions, overpayments, and how to appeal a decision
- How to Contact Universal Credit
Attendance Allowance
- Attendance Allowance full guide
- What most people get wrong about Attendance Allowance
- Attendance Allowance eligibility: who qualifies
- Attendance Allowance rates 2026/27
- What conditions qualify for Attendance Allowance
- How to claim Attendance Allowance: the AA1 form
- What Attendance Allowance unlocks
- When Attendance Allowance stops or changes
- Attendance Allowance in Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Attendance Allowance: frequently asked questions
Bereavement Support Payment
- Who can get Bereavement Support Payment?
- What most people get wrong
- How much is Bereavement Support Payment?
- How to claim Bereavement Support Payment
- Is Bereavement Support Payment taxable?
- Does Bereavement Support Payment affect Universal Credit?
- Edge cases and common problems
- When to take action
- Frequently asked questions
Cost of Living Payments
- Cost of Living Payment full guide
- Is there a cost of living payment in 2025 or 2026?
- The £450 and £280 cost of living payment — are they real?
- Cost of living payment dates — every payment from 2022 to 2024
- Who was eligible for cost of living payments?
- Disability cost of living payment
- What to do if you missed a cost of living payment
- What financial support is available instead in 2026?
Winter Fuel Payment
- Who qualifies for the winter fuel payment in 2025–26
- How much is the winter fuel payment in 2025–26?
- Winter fuel payment and PIP: does PIP qualify you?
- When is the winter fuel payment made?
- Do you need to apply for the winter fuel payment?
- Can you opt out of the winter fuel payment?
- The £35,000 income threshold: what happens if you earn over it
- What to do if your winter fuel payment hasn’t arrived
- Winter Fuel Payment Scotland: What Pensioners Get Instead
Carer’s Allowance
- Who qualifies for Carer’s Allowance
- Is Carer’s Allowance means tested?
- The earnings limit and how it is calculated
- Carer’s Allowance rates and payment dates 2026/27
- How Carer’s Allowance affects your other benefits
- Hospital stays, respite care and breaks in caring
- How to apply for Carer’s Allowance
- Reporting changes, overpayments and cancellation
- Carer’s Allowance: frequently asked questions
General and seasonal
Tax Credits: What They Are and How They Work
- Tax Credits: Full Guide
- What was Working Tax Credit?
- What was Child Tax Credit?
- Tax credits ended on 5 April 2025
- Managed migration: what happened and what to do now
- Transitional protection explained
- If you missed your migration notice deadline
- Checking your tax credit record and payment history
- Renewals and your final award notice
- How to contact HMRC about your old claim
- Tax credit overpayments: how to repay, dispute or appeal
- Tax Credit Overpayments and Repayments