There are many different types of benefits you may be able to claim. This fact sheet explains the most common ones.

Payment of benefits and tax credits by direct credit transfer into bank and building society accounts or Post Office card accounts.

You may have been contacted by your benefit office because they think you are being paid more benefit than you should be getting. This page tells you more about benefit overpayments and what to do if this may have happened.

This guide explains what an overpayment is, what you should do if you think that you have been overpaid, and how an overpayment is recovered. 

Explains what overpayments are, how they happen and how HM Revenue and Customs tries to get the money back. Also includes how to challenge an overpayment.

Information on how overpayments of tax credits can occur, how to dispute them and the powers of HM Revenue & Customs to recover them.

This leaflet explains what might happen to your entitlement to contribution-based, earnings-related and means-tested state benefits, tax credits and work related payments if you buy shares offered by your employer through a Share Incentive Plan.

If you travel or move abroad, or are already living abroad, you may still be able to claim some benefits. What you’re entitled to depends on where you’re going and how long for.