Universal Credit
If you claim Tax Credits, find out about the Move to Universal Credit and what it means for you
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
- Universal Credit: information for couples
- If you're claiming other benefits or tax credits
- Frontier and cross border workers
How you claim Universal Credit
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
Additional help if you're claiming or receiving Universal Credit
Universal Credit explained - videos
The Universal Credit Explained videos help you make your claim for Universal Credit online and will help you understand more about the benefit.
- Universal Credit explained - videos
- Universal Credit guides - information videos
- Universal Credit guides - information videos with Irish Sign Language
- Universal Credit guides - information videos with British Sign Language
- Move to Universal Credit videos
- Move to Universal Credit videos - with British Sign Language
- Move to Universal Credit videos - with Irish Sign Language