Benefits and Financial Support
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Benefits Calculators – You can use an independent, free and anonymous benefits calculator to check what you could be entitled to.
Calculators can show you:-
- The benefits you could get
- How much your benefit payments could be
- How your benefits will be affected if you start work or increase your hours
- How your benefits will be affected if your circumstances change – for example, if you have a child or move in with your partner
Check benefits and financial support you can get by clicking here.
Benefits and Support if you care for someone
Benefits and Financial Support
Other Support
- Become an appointee for someone claiming benefits
- Work and Health Programme
- Support visits if you need help to claim benefits
- Contact the Carer’s Allowance Unit
Benefit and Support when someone dies
- Bereavement Support Payment
- Child Benefit if a child or parent dies
- Get help with funeral costs (Funeral Expenses Payment)
- Guardian’s Allowance
- Support for child funeral costs (Children’s Funeral Fund for England)
- Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay and Leave
- Universal Credit
- Widowed Parent’s Allowance
- War Widow(er) Pension
Benefits and financial support if you’re disabled or have a health condition
Benefits and Financial Support
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Attendance Allowance
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children
- Health conditions, disability and Universal Credit
Work-related and Armed Forces
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- Claim if you were injured while serving in the Armed Forces
- Get compensation for health problems caused by mining
- Diffuse mesothelioma payments
- Reduced Earnings Allowance
Help to find or stay in work
- Work and Health Programme
- Apply for communication support at a job interview if you have a disability or health condition (Access to Work)
- Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition
Other support
Benefits and Support if you are on a low income
Help with housing
- Universal Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI)
- Mortgage Interest Run On
- Apply for Council Tax Reduction
- Housing Benefit information from your council
Help with heating
Help if you’re over state pension age
Other Support
- Self-employment and Universal Credit
- Get help with the cost of living from your local council
- Disabled Facilities Grants
- Manage deductions from your benefits to pay debts and bills
- Get help with NHS prescriptions and health costs
- Get a prescription prepayment certificate
- Support visits if you need help to claim benefits
Benefits and Support for Families
Time off and pay when you have or adopt a child
- Maternity pay and leave
- Maternity Allowance
- Sure Start Maternity Grant
- Paternity pay and leave
- Shared Parental leave and pay
- Adoption pay and leave
- Unpaid parental leave
Child Benefit
- Child Benefit
- Child Benefit when your child turns 16
- Child Benefit tax calculator
- High Income Child Benefit Charge
Support for separated families
Support for disabled children
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children
- Help if you have a disabled child
- Disabled Facilities Grants
Help with childcare costs
Other support
Benefits and Support if you are looking for Work
Benefits and financial support
Other support
- Being made redundant: finding work, claiming benefits and managing debts
- Find a job
- Help with moving from benefits to work
- Work and Health Programme
- Apply for communication support at a job interview if you have a disability or health condition (Access to Work)
- Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition
- Get help with savings if you’re on a low income (Help to Save)
- Budgeting Loans
- Support visits if you need help to claim benefits
Benefits and Support if you are temporarily unable to work
Download Pension Credit fact sheets here:
How to apply for Pension Credit
Other Financial Support
Advice Nottingham – Provides free, confidential and impartial advice on a range of issues, including benefits, debt, employment and housing
Citizens Advice – Information and advice on money, legal and consumer problems
Disability Grants – Information and advice on finding grants to help a person with a disability
Disabled Facilities Grant Nottinghamshire – Find out more about the Disabled Facilities Grant in Nottinghamshire for adaptations to your home
Gov.UK: Help for Households – Find more information on energy saving tips. energy bills, household costs, childcare costs, income support and travel costs
Government services and information
Help with telephone and broadband costs – Social tariffs are cheaper broadband and phone packages for people claiming Universal Credit, Pension Credit and some other benefits. Some providers call them “essential” or “basic” broadband.
Help with fuel costs
- British Gas Energy Trust
- Energy Saving Trust
- LEAP – Helps to support as many people as possible who are at risk of going into fuel poverty. Our service is open to all types of householders – homeowners, private renters and social housing tenants
Martin Lewis Money Advice – Useful advice and information on finances
Money and Pensions Service – Breathing Space is a debt respite scheme which can provide protection for people living in England and Wales who are in debt and receiving mental health crisis treatment.
Pension Credit – While around 1.4 million pensioners are already receiving Pension Credit, there are up to an estimated 880,000 households eligible for the support who are yet to claim. Claiming this benefit can also pass on pensioners to additional help with housing costs, council tax, and heating bills
Reduced Water Bills (Bill Cap Scheme: Water Sure) – To get help through WaterSure, you must be a Severn Trent customer, have a water meter and receive eligible benefits. You or someone in your household must also have either:
- Three or more children under 19 living with you for whom you are receiving child benefit.
- A medical condition requiring the extra use of water
Turn 2 Us – A UK-wide charity that helps people in financial hardship to gain access to welfare benefits, charitable grants and support services
Tips for managing your energy bills – For more information, visit this link
Wills / Power of Attorney
- Lasting Power of Attorney – Office of the Public Guardian. Information about Power of Attorney.
- Silvertime Legal – Estate planning is a vital component of ensuring the financial security and well-being of your loved ones after you’re no longer able to provide for them.