2020/21 weekly amount: £25 for each week of cold weather. How benefits work. Our Broadband Unbundled tool finds the cheapest broadband, phone and TV. These credits are no longer available to most new claimants as it has been replaced by universal credit. If you were born after 8 April 1948 and are on DLA, you'll be invited to apply for PIP. Many employers will have a contractual agreement to pay more, in which case you do not need to claim the benefit, but this is the minimum you will get. Sadly this is a postcode lottery. 2020/21 weekly amount: Depends on your rent, your income, where you live, how many bedrooms you have and how many people live in your home. We use cookies to collect information about how you use GOV.UK. working, or work less than 16 hours per week on average when you claim. 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Child tax credits are part of the legacy system designed as state support for those with children. If your council provides free milk, getting free meals makes you eligible for this too. We hope it's accurate, but it's best to see it as a ready reckoner to see if it's worth making a claim. Healthy Start applications can be made online or by calling 0345 607 6823. You can only continue to get DLA if you were born on or before 8 April 1948 and you have an existing claim. Update September 2017: It’s eight years since I first braved this subject, expecting a snowstorm of protest. 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You're not remarried/formed a new civil partnership or living with a partner as if married/in a civil partnership. et the severe disability premium or have received the severe disability premium in the last month and still be eligible for it. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Marriage allowance lets married couples or civil partners transfer up to £1,250 of their personal allowance between them in the 2020/21 tax year. Some of the benefits in the low income section are also available for families, so check that list too. It's estimated that as a result, some couples could lose up to £7,000 a year. This is paid to people who are not expected to look for work, for example, carers or lone parents with children under the age of five. Up to seven-and-a-half million households are missing out on £16 billion a year of means-tested benefits, the latest Government figures show. This is available if you're caring for someone for more than 35 hours a week, and they receive attendance allowance, disability living allowance care component at either the middle or higher rate, or the daily living component of personal independence payment. How to apply: If you are eligible, you'll be paid automatically. Working tax credits – available under the legacy benefit system to workers with a low income – now comes under universal credit if you're a new applicant. Around four million people are potentially eligible, more than two million of whom are pensioners who receive pension credit. They are also available for those in work with a low income – see the Work section for more details. How to apply: Either claim alongside one of the other income-based benefits above, get a claim form from your local council (search for contact details for your local council on Gov.uk or just Google "www.yourarea.gov.uk", eg www.barnet.gov.uk) or download a form from Gov.uk. 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