A to Z
This A to Z helps you get straight to important areas of this website. Just select the relevant letter below. For example, go to 'W' to find out about 'Welfare reform'.
DWP benefits and services information for individuals is now mostly on the Directgov website. You can reach this information using the A to Z too. Or go direct to Directgov
A
- About DWP
- Accessibility
- Access to Work (Directgov)
- Accidents at work, reporting (Directgov)
- Additional State Pension (Directgov)
- Advisers and intermediaries
- Appeals - for advisers and professionals (NI260)
- Ageing society
- Archive, electronic
- Attendance Allowance Do it online (Directgov)
- Australia – information for people who have lived there
- Austria – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
B
- Barbados, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Belgium – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Benefit and pension rates – leaflet DWP035
- Benefit Integrity Centres
- Benefit theft
- Benefits (Directgov)
- Benefits adviser Do it online (Directgov) – Answer questions to find out information on benefits and tax credits that you may be entitled to
- Bereavement – What to do after a death (Directgov)
- Bermuda, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Better Regulation
- Birthday messages from HM Queen and the Secretary of State (Directgov)
- Budgeting Loans (Directgov)
- Bulk Letter Forwarding Service
C
- Canada, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Careers in DWP
- Careers in the Senior Civil Service
- Carer’s Allowance Do it online(Directgov)
- Care home, temporary stays in a (Directgov)
- Care homes (Directgov)
- Centenarians (Directgov)
- Changes that affect your benefit (Directgov)
- Cheat – report a benefit thief
- Child Benefit Do it online (Directgov)
- Child maintenance (Directgov)
- Child maintenance redesign
- Child poverty
- Child Tax Credit Do it online (Directgov)
- Child Trust Fund (Directgov)
- Christmas Bonus (Directgov)
- City Strategy
- Civil Partnership (Directgov)
- Claim forms
- Cold Weather Payment (Directgov)
- Combined Pension Forecasting (Business Link website)
- Communications research
- Community Care Grants (Directgov)
- Compensation and social security benefits (GL27)
- Compensation Recovery Unit Do it online
- Complaints and appeals
- Consultations
- Contact disability and carers benefits (Directgov)
- Contact Jobcentre Plus (Directgov)
- Contact The Pension Service (Directgov)
- Council Tax Benefit (Directgov)
- Council Tax Benefit Extended Payment (Directgov)
- Council Tax Benefit for advisers and professionals (RR2)
- Council Tax Benefit - information for local authorities
- Crisis Loans (Directgov)
- Customer Charter – DWP
- Customer insight research
- Cyprus – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Czech Republic – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
D
- Data protection
- Death – What to do after a death (Directgov)
- Debt Management organisation (a part of the Department that recovers money)
- Decision Making Standards Committee
- Denmark – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Disability
- Disability and Carers Service supports disabled people and their carers
- Disability Living Allowance Do it online (Directgov)
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children under age 16 Do it online (Directgov)
- Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board
- Diversity and equality
- Downloadable claim forms
E
- Eligible Loan Deductions Scheme
- Employ ability
- Employers
- Employment and Support Allowance (Directgov)
- Enabling Retirement Savings Programme
- Equality schemes
- Estonia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Ethnic Minority Advisory Group
- European Economic Area, Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the
- European Community, Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the
- European Social Fund in England
- Executive Team
- Extended Payment of Council Tax Benefit (Directgov)
- Extended Payment of Housing Benefit (Directgov)
F
- Financial Assistance Scheme
- Finland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Fit note – Statement of Fitness for Work
- Forecast, State Pension Do it online (Directgov)
- Forms (Pensions claim forms are available on The Pension Service (Directgov))
- France – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Fraud – report a benefit thief
- Freedom of Information
- Full of Life – Celebrating older people's contribution to society
- Funeral Payment (Directgov)
G
- Germany – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Gibraltar – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area – Special conditions
- Greece – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- The Growth Fund – aimed at helping to provide affordable loans to people on low incomes in areas of high financial exclusion.
- Guardian's Allowance (Directgov)
H
- Health and safety reform
- Health and work – Information for healthcare professionals
- Healthcare professionals
- Health, work and well-being
- Help for carers (Directgov)
- Holland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Home Responsibilities Protection (Directgov)
- Housing – avoiding repossession (Directgov)
- Housing Benefit (Directgov)
- Housing Benefit Extended Payment (Directgov)
- Housing Benefit - for advisers and professionals (RR2)
- Housing Benefit - information for local authorities
- Housing Costs - standard interest rate (Directgov)
- Hungary – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
I
- Iceland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Impact Assessments
- Incapacity Benefit (Directgov)
- Income Support (Directgov)
- Independent Living Fund
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit – accidents (Directgov)
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit – diseases and deafness (Directgov)
- Industrial Injuries Scheme benefits – for advisers and professionals (DB1)
- Information charter
- Information finder
- Information held about you – how to request information held about you under the Date Protection Act
- Inheritance of SERPS, important information for married people (Directgov)
- International – information on state benefits and pensions for customers living and working overseas
- Ireland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Israel, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Italy – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
J
- Jamaica, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Jersey and Guernsey, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Jobcentre Plus – Contact Jobcentre Plus (Directgov)
- Jobcentre Plus – corporate, stakeholder and partnership information
- Job Grant (Directgov)
- Jobs in DWP
- Jobseeker’s Allowance Do it online (Directgov)
- Journal of Occupational Psychology, Employment and Disability (JOPED)
- Journalists
L
- Letter Forwarding Service (Bulk) (for pension and insurance companies)
- Liechtenstein – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- LinkAge Plus - Pilots for joined up services for older people
- Lithuania – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Local authority staff
- Local Employment Partnerships (Business Link)
- Local Housing Allowance (Directgov)
- Local Housing Allowance - information for local authorities
- Luxembourg – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
M
- Maintenance, child Do it online (Directgov)
- Malta – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Maternity Allowance (Directgov)
- Maternity leave (Directgov)
- Maternity Allowance – for advisers and professionals (NI17A)
- Mauritius, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Media centre
- Medical costs for war pensioners (Directgov)
- Mortgage Interest Direct scheme – qualifying lenders
- Mortgage interest help (Directgov)
- Mortgage Interest Run On (Directgov)
- Motability (Directgov)
N
- National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) – in Workplace pension reforms
- National Insurance number, Applying for a (Directgov)
- NEST (National Employment Savings Trust) – in Workplace pension reforms
- Netherlands – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- New Zealand, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
- Newsroom
- Non-Departmental Public Bodies
- Norway – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- now let's talk money
O
- Occupational pensions (Directgov)
- Office for Disability Issues (Office for Disability Issues website)
- Organisation charts - How we are organised
- Over 80 Pension (Directgov)
- Overseas – information on state benefits and pensions for customers living and working overseas
P
- Pay - Senior managers'
- Payday changes
- Pension and benefit rates (leaflet DWP035)
- Pension Credit (Directgov)
- Pension Credit toolkit
- Pension Tracing Service (Directgov)
- Pensions and retirement (Directgov)
- Pensions Reform - Deregulatory Review
- Pensions Reform - Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system
- Personal Independence Payment
- Personal Pensions (Directgov)
- Philippines, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and the
- Pneumoconiosis (Directgov)
- Poland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Portugal – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Press releases
- Privacy
- Public bodies sponsored by DWP
- Publications
- Publications archive
Q
- Queen's birthday messages (Directgov)
R
- Recovery of benefits – appeals guide (Z2)
- Recovery of benefits – for advisers and professionals (Z1)
- Remploy
- Research
- Resource centre
- Retirement (Directgov)
- Retirement Pension Do it online (Directgov)
- Retirement Pension Forecast Do it online (Directgov)
- RSS news feeds
S
- Same sex couples (Directgov)
- Security in retirement: towards a new pensions system – White Paper on Pensions Reform
- Senior managers' pay
- SERPS, inheritance of – important information for married people (Directgov)
- Severe Disablement Allowance (Directgov)
- Sitemap
- Slovakia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Slovenia – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Social Fund – for advisers and professionals (SB16)
- Social Fund Community Care Grants (Directgov)
- Social Fund Crisis Loans (Directgov)
- Social Justice
- Social research
- Social security agreements between the UK and other countries
- Spain – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Speeches
- Stakeholder bulletin email
- Stakeholder pensions (Directgov)
- Stakeholder pensions – A guide for employers (Business Link website)
- Stakeholder pensions – A guide for pension scheme providers (PDF)
- Standard interest rate – housing costs (Directgov)
- State Pension Do it online (Directgov)
- State Pension Forecast Do it online (Directgov)
- Statistics
- Statutory Adoption Pay (Directgov)
- Statutory Maternity Pay (Directgov)
- Statutory Maternity Pay – for advisers and professionals (NI17A)
- Statutory Paternity Pay (Directgov)
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) (Directgov)
- Suppliers
- Sure Start Maternity Grants (Directgov)
- Sustainable development
- Sweden – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area
- Switzerland – Your social security insurance, benefits and healthcare rights in the European Economic Area – Special conditions
T
- Targeting benefit thieves
- Tax Credits Do it online (Directgov)
- Technical guides (to benefits)
- Temporary stays in a care home (Directgov)
- Touchbase e-zine
- Training (Directgov)
- Transparency
- Transparency in procurement
- Turkey, Social security agreement between the United Kingdom and
U
V
- Vaccine damage payment (Directgov)
- Vehicle Excise Duty Exemption (Directgov)
- Veterans’ benefits and pensions (Directgov)
W
- War Disablement Pension (Directgov)
- War Widow's Pension (Directgov)
- Wedding anniversary messages (Directgov)
- Welfare Reform
- Welsh Language Scheme
- Widowed Parents Allowance (Directgov)
- Winter Fuel Payments (Directgov)
- Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study
- Work – looking for work (Directgov)
- Working Tax Credit (Directgov)
- Workplace Pension Reform – including NEST (National Employment Savings Trust)
