Find your way around this website
Is this website for you?
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) website is published by the Government to provide information about services and benefits provided by DWP and its businesses. Find out more about the DWP.
- Jobcentre Plus - helping people of working age to find work and get any benefits they are entitled to, and offering a dedicated service to employers to fill their vacancies quickly and effectively
- The Pension Service - providing services and support for pensioners and people looking into pensions and retirement
- The Child Support Agency - administering the Child Support scheme
- The Disability and Carers Service - delivering a range of benefits to disabled people and carers
- Debt Management - delivering debt management and recovery systems.
Getting around
Use the main navigation bar at the top of each page to get to and from key areas of the website:
- Services and benefits
- Employers
- Advisers and professionals
- What's new
- About us
- Contact us
- Media centre
- Resource centre
- Other languages.
There are also links to:
- Accessibility
- Cymraeg (Welsh language pages)
- Links
- Site map, and
- A-Z of DWP services, benefits and policies.
I'm looking for...
Find the right information for you by choosing one of the three picture links from the homepage:
- Information about services and benefits for :
- people of working age
- pensioners and people planning pensions
- disabled people and carers
- people with children - including information on child support.
- Employers - Information about services we provide for employers.
- Advisers and professionals - Information for people who give advice on DWP benefits and services. Including advisory bodies, local authorities, partner organisations and organisations working with DWP.
News from DWP
This
page brings you DWP news and announcements. It also includes important changes
to our websites and publications we have added. If you want to find out
something from a previous period, please go to the archive.
Resource centre
Read and print a range of claim forms, leaflets and guides in our resource centre.
There are a number of organisations that can offer you extra help or advice. Visit our resource centre to find useful links.
About us
Learn all about DWP, read our business plan and customer charter and find out about job vacancies within DWP in the about us section.
Contact us
The Department for Work and Pensions is a large organisation. We want to help you to contact the right part of the Department, so we can deal with your query or complaint quickly.
A - Z
A-Z
of benefits, services and policies. Simply select the relevant
letter. For example, go to C to find out
about Carer's
Allowance.
You can also use this page to find out more about social security agreements with other countries.
Site map
Go straight to any section of our website through the site map, which lists all pages within each section.
Go to the site map.
Accessibility
Find out how to make our website easier to read, by changing the size of the text or turning off the images, on the accessibility page of the resource centre.
Still can’t find what you need?
If you don’t know the name of the benefit you’re looking for, check the list of circumstances in the Information about services and benefits section.
Cymraeg (Welsh language section)
The Welsh language section has information about DWP, as well as copies of our Welsh language guides and forms to read or print.
Visit the Welsh language section
Looking for claim forms?
Read and print a range of claim forms and guides in our resource centre.
Search for information
Search this website by typing a word or phrase into the search window in the top right corner of the screen and select search.