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
- You want to claim Universal Credit again
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
- Help with your Universal Credit claim
- Frontier and cross border workers claiming Universal Credit
When and how much you'll get paid
- How and when you get paid Universal Credit
- How much Universal Credit you will get
- Help while waiting for a Universal Credit payment
- What will affect your Universal Credit payments
- How work will affect your Universal Credit payments
- Tell Universal Credit if your circumstances change
- Who to contact if you disagree with a Universal Credit decision
- Changes that may affect your Universal Credit