Benefits
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The Department provides help and financial support if you are unemployed and looking for work. It also provides you with additional income when your earnings are low, if you are bringing up children, are retired, care for someone, are ill or have a disability.
With the current cost of living increases impacting many individuals and households at this time, the Department for Communities has a range of financial supports and advice available which may help.
More in this topic
- 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
- Compensation Recovery
- Disability and Carer's Service
- Employment and Support Allowance
- General benefits information
- Information for appellants, appointees, and representatives on changes to the Appeals Service NI medical records procedures
- Personal Independence Payment
- Social security policy and guidance
- Social Security Standards Committee minutes
- The Special Rules: how the benefit system supports people nearing the end of life
- Universal Credit
- Improvements to Social Fund Budgeting Loan decision communications
- Social security phone services