Welfare Rights Guide

The Welfare Rights section 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 Community Care 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)

• Council Tax Support (CTS)

• Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

• Education Benefits (including 16-19 year old bursary, Care to Learn and discretionary learner support)

• Employment and Support Allowance

• Funeral Payment

• Guardian's Allowance

• Health Benefits and Healthy Start food and vitamins

• 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

• Personal Independence Payment

• 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

• Universal Credit

• 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 Christmas Bonus

• Working Tax Credit (WTC)