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  • A to Z of benefits

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    • Benefits and pensions, 
    • Benefits

    For details of each of the benefits administered by the Department, please visit the links below. These pages will provide you with further information, points of contact and claim forms wherever possible.

    A

    • Attendance Allowance 
    • Additional State Pension

    B

    • Bereavement Allowance
    • Bereavement Payment
    • Bereavement Support Payment
    • Budgeting Loan
    • Apply for a Social Fund Budgeting Loan online

    C

    • Carer's Allowance
    • Carer's Credit
    • Child Benefit
    • Child Funeral Fund
    • Child Maintenance
    • Child Tax Credits (see Tax Credits)
    • Christmas Bonus
    • Cold Weather Payment
    • Constant Attendance Allowance
    • Crisis Loans

    D

    • Disability Living Allowance

    E

    • Employment and Support Allowance

    F

    • Finance Support
    • Funeral Expenses Payment

    G

    • Guardians Allowance

    H

    • Help with health costs
    • Home Responsibilities Protection - now Carer's Credit
    • Housing Benefit
    • Housing Benefit Extended Payment

    I

    • Income Support
    • Independent Living Fund
    • Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit

    J

    • Jobseeker's Allowance

    M

    • Maternity Allowance
    • Motability

    N

    • National Insurance Number (applying for)

    O

    • Over 80 Pension

    P

    • Pension Credit
    • Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
    • Pneumoconiosis, byssinosis & misc. disease scheme benefits

    R

    • Reduced Earnings Allowance
    • Redundancy Pay

    S

    • Severe Disablement Allowance
    • Second State Pension (see Additional State Pension)
    • Short Term Benefit Advances
    • State Pension
    • Statutory Adoption Pay
    • Statutory Maternity Pay
    • Statutory Paternity Pay
    • Statutory Sick Pay
    • Sure Start Maternity Grant

    T

    • Tax Credits
    • Travelling Expenses

    U

    • Universal Credit

    V

    • Vaccine damage

    W

    • War Disablement Pension
    • War Widow or Widower's Pension
    • Widowed Parent's Allowance
    • Winter Fuel Payment
    • Working Tax Credit (see Tax Credits)

    Related content

    • 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
    • General benefits information
    • Improvements to Social Fund Budgeting Loan decision communications
    • Information for appellants, appointees, and representatives on changes to the Appeals Service NI medical records procedures
    • Social security phone services
    • Social security policy and guidance
    • Social Security Standards Committee minutes
    • The Special Rules: how the benefit system supports people nearing the end of life
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