Universal Credit
Universal Credit is a payment for people over 18 but under State Pension age who are on a low income or out of work. It includes support for the cost of housing, children and childcare, and financial support for people with disabilities, carers and people too ill to work.
Sign in to your Universal Credit Account
Check if you can get Universal Credit
- Who can claim Universal Credit
- Universal Credit if you're employed
- Universal Credit if you're self-employed
- Universal Credit if you're unemployed
- Universal Credit if you have a health condition or disability
- Universal Credit if you're claiming other benefits or tax credits
- Frontier and cross border workers claiming Universal Credit
How you claim Universal Credit
- How you make a claim for Universal Credit
- What to do after you have claimed Universal Credit
- Agree your Universal Credit Commitment
- Unable to manage your Universal Credit claim by yourself
- Universal Credit - sharing information with others
- Contact Universal Credit for help with your claim
- Changes you need to tell Universal Credit about
When and how much you'll get paid
- How much Universal Credit you get and how you're paid
- Help while waiting for a Universal Credit payment
- What will affect your Universal Credit payments
- Changes that may affect your Universal Credit
- Cost of Living support
- Universal Credit payments for children and childcare
- Universal Credit payments for housing
- More financial help if you get Universal Credit
- Money taken from your Universal Credit payments
- Who to talk to about deductions from your Universal Credit