It’s important to make sure that you get all the help that you’re entitled to. DUJ Advice Centre gives you information on benefits and tax credits if you are working or unemployed, sick, or disabled, a parent, a young person, an older person or a veteran. There is also information about council tax and housing costs, national insurance, payment of benefits and problems with benefits.

What are YOU entitled to?

The Benefits Calculator can help you find out what benefits you could be owed. It’s free to use and the details you provide are kept anonymous.

Benefits calculators

You can use an independent, free, and anonymous benefits calculator to check what you could be entitled to. This will give you an estimate of:

• The benefits you could get.
• how much your benefit payments could be.
• how your benefits will be affected if you start work or increase your hours.
• how your benefits will be affected if your circumstances change – for example, if you have a child or move in with your partner.

Calculators

For information on income-related benefits, contribution-based benefits, Universal Credits, tax credits, Council Tax Reduction, and Carer’s Allowance use:

• Policy in Practice better off calculator.
• Entitledto benefits calculator.
• Turn2us benefits calculator.

What you’ll need

You’ll need accurate information about your:

• savings.
• income, including your partner’s (from payslips, for example).
• existing benefits and pensions (including anyone living with you).
• outgoings (such as rent, mortgage, and childcare payments).
• Council Tax bill.

Who cannot use them?

You cannot use the calculators if you’re under 18, and they will not give accurate results if you’re:

• a prisoner.
• a student.
• not a British or Irish citizen.
• on strike.
• living outside the UK.
• living permanently in residential care or a nursing home.