Social security benefits

New and updated

• Personal independence payment (PIP)

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed personal independence payment (PIP) rates for 2019/20.

• Income support

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed income support rates for 2019/2020.

• Industrial injuries disablement benefit

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed industrial injuries disablement benefit rates for 2019/20.

• Jobseeker's allowance

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed jobseeker's allowance rates for 2019/2020.

• Employment and support allowance (ESA)

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed Employment and Support Allowance rates for 2019/2020.

• Working and child tax credit

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the new working and child tax credit rates in force from 6 April 2019.

• Could universal basic income ever take off in the UK?

  Date:

  22 May 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Universal basic income has been described as everything between a utopian ideal and "dangerous nonsense", but with a trial due to take place soon with local authorities in Scotland, how likely is it that it could become a reality in the UK? Jo Faragher investigates.

• Working tax credit (WTC)

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Child tax credit (CTC)

  Type:

  Employment glossary

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• ECJ decision on job-seekers' allowance

  Date:

  14 October 2005

  Type:

  Law reports

  On 15 September 2005, the European Court of Justice ("the ECJ") gave its decision in Office national de l'emploi v Ioannis Ioannidis (C-258/04).