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Age UK is the new force combining Age Concern England and
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Are you entitled to more money than you realised? Use our online benefits calculator to find out.
Many of us are struggling to make ends meet, with rising fuel costs and lower interest rates.
But many older people don't realise they're entitled to claim extra benefits, such as Pension Credit, Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit.
Use our benefits calculator
Even if you’re claiming some benefits, you may be entitled to others. Get checked for them all.
Download our free information guide More money in your pocket: a guide for people of State Pension age
Download our free information guide Claiming benefits: a guide for people of working age
Many of us are paying the wrong amount of tax - are you one of them? We can help you work out how much you should be paying and whether your tax is correct for the year 2011/12.
Try our tax calculator - it only takes a few minutes and is free
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Downloads
A download is a document (like a research report, a leaflet, or an application form) that can be transferred from our website to your computer. You can download a file, view it on your screen, print it, or save it to your computer.
PDF stands for ‘portable document format’.
Most downloads on this website are PDFs. We use this format to ensure that the document looks the same on everyone’s computer (website pages, by contrast, appear differently depending on how people have set their computer up).
Computers use a program called Adobe Acrobat Reader to download PDFs. If you try clicking on a link to download a PDF and it doesn’t work, you will need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader onto your computer.
The process is quite straightforward and is free.
PDFs cannot be changed. If you need to be able to type into a downloaded document (for example, if we are offering a letter template that you need to put your name on) we will provide it as a Microsoft Word document rather than a PDF. You can then download it, type into it and save it to your computer.
Downloads will open on your computer in a new browser window.
Inside this window (below all your web browser menus), there will be a toolbar with options for you to print or save the document.
Close the browser window to return to the Age UK website.
We have made every effort to make our PDFs accessible to screen readers. Here is an overview of your accessibility options available in Acrobat Reader. Please ensure that you have downloaded the latest version of Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Reader website to ensure that they are included in your version of the programme.
You can use Adobe Reader to read a PDF out loud with the following shortcut keys:
You can also convert a PDF into a web page by following these steps:
You can convert a PDF document into a text file for use with other software and hardware such as Braille printers by opening the PDF and choosing ‘Save as text’ from the File menu.
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