A - Z Of Benefits

The A-Z of benefits provides a comprehensive guide to all the benefits affecting children and families. Updated regularly by a welfare rights expert, this section contains helpful information about who can claim each benefit and how to go about it. Subscribers can also take advantage of a direct link through to Hertfordshire Council’s online welfare rights information service.

If you are logged in to CC Inform, you can click on the title of the benefit to be taken to a page giving you comprehensive details about that benefit, who pays it and how to claim it.

Armed Forces Compensation Scheme

Attendance Allowance (AA)

Bereavement Allowance (weekly payment)

Bereavement Payment (lump sum)

Carers Allowance (formerly Invalid Care Allowance)

Child Benefit (CB)

Child Tax Credit (CTC)

Child Trust Fund

Council Tax Benefit (CTB)

Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

Education Welfare Benefits (including EMA, Adult Learner Grants and Care To Learn)

Employment and Support Allowance

Funeral Payment

Guardian's Allowance

Health Benefits and Healthy Start food and vitamins

Health in Pregnancy Grant

Housing Benefit (HB)

In- Work Credit

Incapacity Benefit and Incapacity Benefit in Youth (IBY).

Income Support (IS)

Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit (IIDB)

Job Seekers Allowance (JSA)

Maternity Allowance

Pension Credit

Reduced Earnings Allowance

Retirement pension

Return to Work Credit

Severe Disablement Allowance

Social Fund

Statutory Maternity Pay (and Statutory Adoption Pay)

Statutory Paternity Pay

Statutory Sick Pay

Sure Start Maternity Payment

War Disablement Pension (various)

War Widow's and Widower's Pension

Widowed Mother's Allowance

Widowed Parent's Allowance

Widow's Pension

Winter Fuel Payment and Xmas Bonus

Working Tax Credit (WTC)