Services

Contact the Pension Service about State Pension eligibility, claims, payments and complaints, and to update your details (such as your address or bank details)

Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) money if you cannot work because of illness or disability - rates, eligibility, apply, assessment.

Apply for your first National Insurance number - you must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.

Housing Benefit or Local Housing Allowance (LHA) - rates, eligibility, claim form, calculator, appeals, 'Discretionary Housing Payment'.

Report someone committing benefit fraud - you can report anonymously.

National Insurance contributions you can choose to pay when you have a gap in your National Insurance record.

National Insurance - your National Insurance number, how much you pay, National Insurance rates and classes, check your contributions record.

There is a limit on the total amount of benefit that most people aged 16 to under State Pension age can get - benefits affected, benefit cap amount.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for adults - DLA rates, eligibility, changes because of Personal Independence Payment.

Use the Attendance Allowance claim form to apply for financial help for your personal care if you're disabled and State Pension age or older.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions

Help for children under 16 with disabilities - DLA rate, eligibility, how to apply, claim form.

Interest-free loans from the government for some people on benefits: how to apply, check if you're eligible

How to claim the basic State Pension and how it's calculated - for men born before 6 April 1951 and women born before 6 April 1953.

Get help at work, including an Access to Work grant, if you have a disability or health condition - eligibility, how to apply.

Use this claim form to apply for DLA for children under 16, in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions

Fit notes (formerly sick notes), holiday during sick leave, returning to work, long-term sick, dismissals

Check what help you might be able to get with childcare schemes like tax credits, Tax-Free Childcare, childcare vouchers and free childcare or education for 2 to 4-year-olds.

Send your fit note for your Employment Support Allowance (ESA) claim.

Contact information for queries about claims that have been made for Disability Living Allowance, Personal Independence Payment and Attendance Allowance