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Use the Attendance Allowance claim form to apply for financial help for your personal care if you're disabled and State Pension age or older.
Check if you were contracted out of the Additional State Pension and what it means for your State Pension
Benefit payments - payment dates, bank holidays, if you do not have a bank account, Post Office card accounts.
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults - DLA rates, eligibility, changes because of Personal Independence Payment.
Trading hours for retailers, restrictions on Sunday opening and public holiday opening in England, Wales and Scotland
Find out what support is available to help with the cost of living: income and disability benefits, bills and allowances, childcare, housing and travel.
National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.
Claiming Universal Credit if you're self-employed - eligibility, reporting your earnings, start up periods
Report changes in circumstances if you're claiming or have applied for Carer's Allowance - if you get a job, take a break from caring for someone, stop being a carer
Funeral Expenses Payment (also called Funeral Payment) to help pay funeral costs if you get certain benefits - eligibility, how to claim, form SF200
If you have a health condition or disability, you’ll have an assessment to work out how much Universal Credit you can get and what you need to do in return.
Financial help if you're disabled - benefits, housing costs, council tax, vehicle tax exemption, TV Licence, motability schemes, VAT relief
Who can get National Insurance credits and how to apply or when to pay voluntary National Insurance contributions.
Winter Fuel Payment helps older people with their heating bills - claim form, how much you get, eligibility
National Insurance - your National Insurance number, how much you pay, National Insurance rates and classes, check your contributions record.
Employers must fill in the SSP1 form when an employee is not entitled to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) or when their SSP is ending.
Bereavement Support Payment is money you can get if your partner dies - how it works, eligibility, what you'll get, how to claim.
See how the Child Maintenance Service works out maintenance and the rates they use
The steps you must take when someone dies - register a death, report a death with Tell Us Once, coroners, funerals and death abroad.
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