Apply for a Budgeting Loan

You can apply for a Budgeting Loan if you or your partner are getting a low income benefit and need help buying things like furniture, clothes or certain expenses to do with living or working.

How to use this service

Use the links below to download and complete a claim form or contact the Social Security Agency for a claim form.

Claim Online

You cannot claim a Budgeting Loan online.

Download a form

Budgeting Loan form

You make a claim by printing out a claim form and filling it in. When you have filled in the form you can either:

post it to the office whose details are shown on the form, or
hand it in at your nearest Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office
Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)

Important: The date the claim form is received in a Social Security Agency office is the date we can consider payment from - not the date you downloaded the claim form.