
Welfare Benefits
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This page includes the following Information Sheets:
Attendance Allowance - April 2023
Benefit Cap - April 2023
Benefits for Carers - April 2023
How benefits are affected by moving into a care home - adults over 18 - April 2023
Information on how going in to residential or nursing care can affect benefits.
Disability Living Allowance - April 2023
How periods in hospital can affect benefits - April 2023
Time spent in an NHS hospital can reduce the amount of benefit a person can get. Some benefits stop being paid while the claimant is in hospital.
Income Support for long term sick and disabled people - April 2023
Universal Credit has now replaced this benefit.
Pension Credit - April 2023
Pension Credit has two parts; Guarantee Credit and the Savings Credit. The Guarantee Credit replaced Income Support for older people. The Savings Credit is a way some people can get extra help if they have saved for their retirement.
Personal Independence Payment - April 2023
Personal Independence Payment - descriptors and scores - April 2023
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) will replace Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
This applies to adults of working age – that is for people from the age 16 to the qualifying pension age.
Council tax support and discounts April 2023
Universal Credit - April 2023
Universal Credit integrates many existing benefits into one monthly payment.
It is a means-tested benefit. People will not be eligible if they have savings, income or assets worth more than £16,000.
Universal Credit - Transitional payment and transitional element April 2021
Universal Credit integrates existing means-tested benefits into one single monthly payment. The existing benefits are now referred to as ‘legacy benefits’.
Find out more on the Welfare Benefits page.