Benefits

Government figures released today show that up to an estimated £10.1 billion of pension credit, housing benefit and income support were left unclaimed in a single year.

Income tax cuts will be brought in a year earlier than planned and an extra £1 billion spent to help protect those moving onto universal credit, as part of the 2018 Budget unveiled by the Chancellor Philip Hammond.

Claimants of the personal independence payment will be able to submit appeals online as part of a Government trial.

About 70,000 people on employment and support allowance could be in line to receive up to £20,000 each after being underpaid by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Delays in universal credit benefit payments for housing costs are leaving claimants unable to pay rent and pushing some deep into debt, a committee of MPs has heard.

A scheme to give free sanitary products to women on low incomes has been launched in Scotland.

Up to 230,000 unpaid carers are putting their state pension in jeopardy by not claiming carer's credit – a benefit that plugs gaps in your national insurance record when you're not able to work because you're caring for someone.

Parents signed up to the new Tax-Free Childcare scheme have told MoneySavingExpert.com they're unable to access money they've put into it and are struggling to pay nurseries and childminders, as massive technical problems continue to dog the site more than a month after it launched.

Parents and carers trying to register for key Government childcare schemes are still encountering technical problems – nearly two weeks after MoneySavingExpert.com first revealed the website was affected by intermittent set-backs.

Tax credit claimants who had payments wrongly stopped by fraud-busting firm Concentrix have received almost £87,000 in compensation from HM Revenue & Customs, a report has revealed.