Income Support

Some 100,000 low income households and pregnant women currently in receipt of 'NHS Healthy Start' vouchers need to actively apply for a new prepaid card to receive their payments from 10 March, as the scheme will stop sending out paper vouchers.  

If you're aged over 74, you could be entitled to backdated cash from the Government to help cover the cost of energy bills. But you need to be quick, as you'll need to post your claim form by Saturday at the very latest.

Disability and carers' benefits and the additional state pension will rise by 2.7% in April 2014 – but other benefits will see just a 1% rise, Chancellor George Osborne said in today's Autumn Statement.

Freezing temperatures have triggered the first cold weather payments in Britain this winter.

The Government is considering linking hikes in benefit payments to average pay rather than inflation, it was claimed last night.

David Cameron will discuss slashing benefits for young people today as he warns the welfare system is causing deep social divisions.

The freezing temperatures across the UK have triggered the first cold weather payments this winter.

The freezing temperatures in parts of the UK have triggered the first cold weather payments this winter, the Government has announced.

Almost a quarter of a million struggling householders will see mortgage benefit payments dive by a typical £3,700 a year from next month.