A - Z
This A-Z gives you information about DWP benefits, services and policies. Simply select the relevant letter. For example, go to C to find out about Carer's Allowance.
You can also use this page to find out more about social security agreements with other countries.
A
- About us
- Access to Work (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Accidents at work, reporting
- Additional State Pension (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Advisers and professionals
- Age Positive (this link will take you to the Age Positive website)
- Attendance Allowance (AA) Do it online (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Australia – information for people who have lived there
- Austria – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
B
- Barbados, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Belgium – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Benefit and pension rates
- Benefit theft/fraud
- Bereavement – What to do after a death (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Bermuda, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Better Regulation
- Birthday messages from HM Queen and the Secretary of State (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Budgeting Loans (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Bulk Letter Forwarding Service
C
- Canada, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Careers in the Senior Civil Service
- Carer's Allowance Do it online (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Care home, temporary stays in a (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Care homes (this will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Centenarians (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Changes that affect your benefit (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Cheat – report a benefit thief
- Child Benefit Do it online (this link will take you to the HM Revenue & Customs website)
- Child Maintenance Bonus
- Child maintenance Do it online (this link will take you to the Child Support Agency website)
- Child maintenance redesign
- Child poverty
- Child Tax Credit Do it online (this link will take you to the HM Revenue & Customs website)
- Child Trust Fund (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Christmas Bonus (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Civil Partnership
- Claim forms (Pensions claim forms are available on The Pension Service website)
- Cold Weather Payment (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Combined Pension Forecasting (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Community Care Grants (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Compensation Recovery Unit Do it online
- Consultations
- Contact us
- Corporate Medical Group
- Council Tax Benefit
- Council Tax Benefit - information for local authorities
- Council Tax Benefit Extended Payment
- Crisis Loans
- Cyprus – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Czech Republic – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
D
- Data protection
- Death – What to do after a death (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Debt Management organisation (a part of the Department that recovers money)
- Decision Making Standards Committee
- Denmark – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Departmental Framework – sets out how the DWP is organised and managed
- Direct Payment
- Disability and Carers Service supports disabled people and their carers
- Disability Discrimination Act – information for employers and service providers
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) Do it online (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children under age 16 Do it online (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Diversity and equality
- Downloadable claim forms
E
- Eligible Loan Deductions Scheme
- Employ ability
- Employers
- Employment and Support Allowance (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Equalities Office
- Equality schemes
- Estonia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- European Economic Area, Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the
- European Community, Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the
- European Social Fund
- Extended Payment of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit – if you have been getting Jobseeker’s Allowance or Income Support
- Extended Payment of Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit – if you have been getting Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance
F
- Financial Assistance Scheme
- Financial Assistance Scheme - Review of Scheme Assets
- Finland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Forecast, State Pension Do it online (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Forms (Pensions claim forms are available on The Pension Service website)
- France – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Fraud – report a benefit thief
- Freedom of Information
- Funeral Payment (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
G
- Germany – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Gibraltar – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area – Special conditions
- Government Equalities Office
- Greece – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- The Growth Fund – aimed at helping to provide affordable loans to people on low incomes in areas of high financial exclusion.
- Guardian's Allowance (this link will take you to the HM Revenue & Customs website)
- Guides and leaflets
H
- Health, work and well-being
- Help for carers (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
- Holland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Home loan interest (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Home Responsibilities Protection (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Hospital downrating
- Housing Benefit
- Housing Benefit - information for local authorities
- Housing Benefit Extended Payment
- Housing Costs - standard interest rate
- Hungary – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
I
- Iceland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Impact Assessments
- Incapacity Benefit (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Income Support (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Information finder
- Inheritance of SERPS, important information for married people (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Ireland -Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Israel, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Italy – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
J
- Jamaica, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Jersey and Guernsey, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Job Grant (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Jobseeker's Allowance (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Joint birth registration
- Journal of Occupational Psychology, Employment and Disability
L
- Latvia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Leaflets and guides
- Letter Forwarding Service (Bulk) (for pension and insurance companies)
- Liechtenstein – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- LinkAge Plus - Pilots for joined up services for older people
- Lithuania – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Local Housing Allowance
- Local Housing Allowance - information for local authorities
- Luxembourg – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
M
- Maintenance, child Do it online (this link will take you to the Child Support Agency website)
- Malta – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Maternity Allowance (MA) (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Maternity leave (this link will take you to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform website)
- Mauritius, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Media centre
- Medical treatment and care for War Pensioners (this link will take you to the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency website)
- Mortgage interest (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Motability (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
N
- National Insurance number, Applying for a
- National Pensions Debate – Information on the national pensions debate and planning for retirement
- Netherlands – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- New Deal for Lone Parents (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- New Deal for Partners (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- New Deal for people aged 25 plus (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- New Deal for people aged 50 plus (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- New Deal for Young People (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- New Zealand, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Non-Departmental Public Bodies
- Norway – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
O
- Occupational pensions (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Office for Disability Issues
- Opportunity Age
- Opportunity for all
- Other languages
- Over 50s (this link will take you to the Directgov – over 50s section)
- Over 80 Pension (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
P
- Pension and benefit rates
- Pension Credit (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Pension Tracing Service (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Pensions Debate – Information on the national pensions debate and planning for retirement
- Pensions Education Fund
- Pensions Reform - Deregulatory Review
- Pensions Reform - Personal Accounts: a new way to save
- Pensions Reform - Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system
- Personal Pensions (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Philippines, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and the
- Pneumoconiosis (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Poland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Portugal – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Press releases
- Principles of Welfare Reform
- Privacy
- Publications
- Public bodies sponsored by DWP
Q
- Queen's birthday messages (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
R
- Research
- Resource centre
- Retirement (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Retirement Pension Do it online (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Retirement Pension Forecast Do it online (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
S
- Same sex couples
- Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system – White Paper on Pensions Reform
- SERPS, inheritance of – important information for married people (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Services and benefits
- Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA) (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Slovakia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Slovenia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Social Fund (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Social Fund Community Care Grants (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Social Fund Crisis Loans (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Social Fund, European
- Social security agreements between the UK and other countries
- Spain – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Speeches
- Stakeholder pensions (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Stakeholder pensions – A guide for employers (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Stakeholder pensions – A guide for pension scheme providers (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Standard interest rate - housing costs
- State Pension Do it online (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- State Pension Forecast Do it online (this link will take you to The Pension Service website)
- Statistics
- Statutory Adoption Pay (this link will take you to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform website)
- Statutory Maternity Pay
- Statutory Paternity Pay (this link will take you to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform website)
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- Suffering from a dust related disease (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Sure Start Maternity Grants (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Sustainable development
- Sweden – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Switzerland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area – Special conditions
T
- Targeting benefit thieves
- Tax Credits Do it online (this link will take you to the HM Revenue & Customs website)
- Temporary stays in a care home (this link will take you to the DirectGov website)
- Time off for maternity leave (this link will take you to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform website)
- Turkey, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
U
V
- Vaccine damage payments (This will take you to the Directgov website)
- Vehicle Excise Duty Exemption (this link will take you to the Directgov website)
W
- War Disablement Pension (this link will take you to the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency website)
- War Widow's Pension (this link will take you to the Service Personnel and Veterans Agency website)
- Wedding anniversary messages
- Welfare Reform
- Welsh Language Scheme
- What's new
- Widowed Parents Allowance (this link will take you to the Jobcentre Plus website)
- Winter Fuel Payments (this link will take you to the The Pension Service website)
- Women and Equality Unit (this link will take you to the Women and Equality Unit website)
- Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study
- Working Tax Credit Do it online (this link will take you to the HM Revenue & Customs website)