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  1. FS49 The Social Fund Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision.pdf

    Page 1 of 18 Factsheet 49 Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision July 2025 About this factsheet The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet ... includes: ⚫ Winter Fuel Payments ⚫ Cold Weather Payments ⚫ Funeral Expenses Payments Advances of Benefit are loans requiring repayment and include: ⚫ Short-term advances ⚫ Budgeting advances ⚫ Budgeting

  2. CRS_Sept15_Age_UK_submission_to_Work_and_Pensions_Committee_Inquiry_on_benefit_delivery.pdf

    Evidence submission Age UK evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee’s Inquiry into Benefit Delivery September 2015 Ref No. 4015 sally.west@ageuk.org.uk Age UK Tavis House 1-6 Tavistock ... UK about benefit issues have reached Pension Credit age (women’s State Pension age) and therefore do not face the same conditionality requirements as younger people in order to receive benefits. If there

  3. Factsheet - The Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision

    Page 1 of 18 Factsheet 49 Social Fund, Advances of Benefit and Local Welfare Provision July 2025 About this factsheet The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet ... includes: ⚫ Winter Fuel Payments ⚫ Cold Weather Payments ⚫ Funeral Expenses Payments Advances of Benefit are loans requiring repayment and include: ⚫ Short-term advances ⚫ Budgeting advances ⚫ Budgeting

  4. FS74 LP Challenging welfare benefit decisions.pdf

    Page 1 of 24 Factsheet 74 Challenging welfare benefit decisions June 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains who makes benefit decisions, how a decision can be challenged, and how to make complaints ... England and Wales. The process for challenging devolved benefit decisions in Scotland is different. See the Age Scotland guide: Challenging benefit decisions, or contact Age Scotland for more information

  5. Benefit take-up briefing May 2024 .pdf

    1 Briefing Benefit take-up and older people May 2024 Introduction The latest figures show that there are nearly two million pensioners in the UK living in poverty, yet around 2.8 billion ... billion pounds of Pension Credit and Housing Benefit is unclaimed in a single year. With financial pressures due to high costs, it is more important than ever that people receive their full entitlements. This

  6. FS17 LP Housing Benefit.pdf

    Page 1 of 38 Factsheet 17 Housing Benefit April 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains what Housing Benefit is, who qualifies for it, and how it is calculated. It explains how to claim and ... refer to Age UK factsheet 56, Benefits for people under State Pension age. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period April 2026 to March 2027. Benefit rates are reviewed annually and

  7. Benefit changes for mixed age couples - Feb 19 (PDF)

    1 Benefit changes for mixed age couples February 2019 The law is due to change on 15 May 2019, so that a ‘mixed age couple’ (that is a couple where one partner is a pensioner and the other under pension ... pension age) will be considered to be a ‘working age’ couple for the purposes of means-tested benefits. Age UK believes this is unfair and the change should not go ahead because:  Pensioners could face

  8. Factsheet - Challenging welfare benefit decisions (PDF)

    Page 1 of 20 Factsheet 74 Challenging welfare benefit decisions June 2025 About this factsheet This factsheet explains who makes benefit decisions, how a decision can be challenged, and how to make complaints ... England and Wales. The process for challenging devolved benefit decisions in Scotland is different. See the Age Scotland guide: Challenging benefit decisions, or contact Age Scotland for more information

  9. Factsheet - Housing Benefit (PDF)

    Page 1 of 30 Factsheet 17 Housing Benefit April 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet explains what Housing Benefit is, who qualifies for it, and how it is calculated. It explains how to claim and ... refer to Age UK factsheet 56, Benefits for people under State Pension age. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period April 2026 to March 2027. Benefit rates are reviewed annually and

  10. FS56 LP Benefits for people under State Pension age.pdf

    Page 1 of 28 Factsheet 56 Benefits for people under State Pension age April 2026 About this factsheet This factsheet has information about benefits for people under State Pension age. It includes ... Universal Credit and how it affects people claiming other benefits and about disability and carers’ benefits. It explains how you can claim these benefits. From April 2026, State Pension age starts to increase

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