Managing on a low income
Find out more about specific benefits and services
- If you are on a low income and any of the following apply: you are a
lone parent, you are sick or disabled, you are aged 60 or over, you are
caring for someone who is ill or disabled, you are registered blind:
check Income Support. - If you are a lone parent and want to move off benefit into work or just
want help finding work:
check New Deal for Lone Parents. - If you are paying rent and on a low income:
check Housing Benefit. - If you are paying council tax and on a low income:
check Council Tax Benefit. - If you get a low-income benefit or tax credit and need help paying for
a funeral:
check Funeral Payment. - If you or your partner are getting Income Support or income-based Jobseeker's
Allowance and have a child under 5, or you are disabled or are aged 60
or over:
check Cold Weather Payment. - If you are leaving residential or institutional accommodation, need
help to stay in your own home, have had an unsettled way of life or you
are facing exceptional pressure:
check Community Care Grants.
(Residential or institutional accommodation means a place where you get a lot of care or supervision, like hospital or residential care and nursing homes.) - If you need things for your home or other things which you cannot pay
for in a lump sum and you get Income Support or income-based Jobseeker's
Allowance:
check Budgeting Loans. - If you, or your partner if you have one, are working but have a low
income, you may be able to get Working Tax Credit. For information, go
to the:
HM Revenue & Customs website. - If you are responsible for at least one child or young person, you may
be able to get Child Tax Credit. For information go to the:
HM Revenue & Customs website.