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  • General benefits information

    Topics:
    • Benefits and pensions, 
    • Benefits, 
    • Pensions

    The Department administers and provides guidance on a range of social security benefits and pensions to the people of Northern Ireland to help them move closer to work, to process benefit reviews and any appeals, to prevent and detect benefit fraud and much more.

    General benefits information

    • Benefits Adviser
    • Benefits and financial support
    • Direct Payment
    • Employment
    • Planning for retirement
    • People with disabilities

    Benefits online and forms

    • Claim benefits online or download claim forms

    General Social Security enquiries

    • Submit a general enquiry to the Department about benefits

    Related content

    • A to Z of benefits
    • Administrative Welfare Supplementary Payments
    • Benefits and pensions - how to apply
    • Benefits Information for Advisors
    • Benefits Information for Employers
    • Benefits Information for Healthcare Professionals
    • Child Funeral Fund
    • DfC Supports and Advice Services
    • Improvements to Social Fund Budgeting Loan decision communications
    • Information for appellants, appointees, and representatives on changes to the Appeals Service NI medical records procedures
    • Interministerial Group for Work and Pensions
    • Pension Credit toolkit
    • Pension information
    • Pension Schemes Bill 2020
    • Social security phone services
    • Social security policy and guidance
    • Social Security Standards Committee minutes
    • State Pension Reforms
    • Statutory Guidance – Occupational and Personal Pensions
    • The Special Rules: how the benefit system supports people nearing the end of life
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