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If you want to claim Universal Credit you must verify your identity. This guide for claimants and people supporting them explains how to do that.
Check who your health assessment provider is and how to contact them.
More detailed information about New Style Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for stakeholders and claimants.
This guidance explains the rights of UK nationals in the EU, the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland to benefits and pensions.
If you’re in a couple where one of you is State Pension age, and you get a Migration Notice, you both need to move to Universal Credit as your benefits will end soon.
These easy read guides explain how you can get help from Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and how to claim it.
Guidance about signing up for the Disability Confident scheme, and how it can help your business.
This document lists the employers that have signed up to the Disability Confident scheme, and their status (committed, employer or leader).
Your Universal Credit payments can be reduced if you do not complete your agreed work-related activities without a good reason. This is known as a sanction.
You can apply to Access to Work to get money for communication support at a job interview.
A summary of changes to PIP which affect how the Department for Work and Pensions decides PIP claims.
This is a work programme in England and Wales to help disabled people, those with health conditions and people with complex barriers to employment, to find sustainable work.
Information about Universal Credit for families with more than 2 children.
Get help if you have difficulties claiming benefits and pensions because of a disability or health condition.
You need to move to Universal Credit if you get a Migration Notice letter and you’re State Pension age, as tax credits are ending soon.
Send a question to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministerial correspondence team.
You might receive an additional payment to help you move to Universal Credit, if you receive a Migration Notice letter.
PRaP allows DWP and Welfare to Work providers to exchange information and payments securely.
Back to work programmes to help Universal Credit, Jobseeker's Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance claimants move nearer to, or into, work.
The Universal Credit Landlord Portal allows social rented sector (SRS) landlords to verify rent, support tenants and manage payments online.
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