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
- If you're employed
- Claiming Universal Credit when you're self-employed
- Business expenses you can report if you're self-employed
- Report business income and expenses if you're self-employed
- If you're unemployed
- If you have a health condition or disability
- If you're claiming other benefits or tax credits
- Frontier and cross border workers
When and how much Universal Credit you'll get paid
- How much you get and how you're paid
- Universal Credit payments for children and childcare
- Universal Credit payments for housing
- Help while waiting for a payment
- What will affect your payments
- Money taken from your payments
- Who to talk to about deductions from your Universal Credit
- More financial help if you get Universal Credit