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Claim or deal with Child Benefit for someone else - if your child has a baby, authorisation form TC689, appointees, voluntary organisations
Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Universal Credit sanctions: data to June 2017.
Provides experimental statistics on households that have their Housing Benefit or Universal Credit claim capped through the Benefit Cap in Northern Ireland.
This research aims to develop an understanding of Universal Credit telephone claims and what the benefits and drawbacks are compared to online claim management.
Technical note and questions and answers about early caseload estimates for working age inactive benefit client groups.
This section contains summary geographical statistics for finalised awards for individuals and households claiming Working Tax Credits and/or Child Tax Credits.
Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year 2014/15.
Estimates of take-up of income-related benefits for Great Britain for the financial year 2016 to 2017.
Statistics take-up of the In Work Credit, a financial incentive available to lone parents moving into work up to March 2013.
The number of children who lived in households where a parent or guardian claimed an out-of-work benefit at 31 May 2016.
These statistics provide information about families using Tax-Free Childcare.
Our 2022 to 2024 strategy for implementing the final phase of Universal Credit.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct
Number of households capped from 15 April 2013 to December 2013.
Today I’m announcing that I have set up a new cross government ministerial taskforce to drive the further action we need to take down barriers to recruitment.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Annual Official Statistics on the number and proportion of children living in low income families.
How HM Revenue and Customs handles Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit cases
The support that is available for Universal Credit claimants who have a disability or health condition.
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