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. Information on Budgeting Loans can be easily accessed by calling the freephone number 0800 028 8822 (calls are free from BT landline and most mobiles).

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.

Download a form

Budgeting Loan form

• Budgeting Loan Form SF500 (PDF 325KB)
• Help with PDF files

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.

Ask for a form

You can get Budgeting Loan forms from the Social Security Agency.  Contact one of their offices.

• Social Security / Jobs and Benefits office (contacts section)
• Benefit Shop Castle Court (contacts section)

More useful links

• Budgeting Loans (money, tax and benefits section)