Social security benefits

New and updated

• Universal credit

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Universal credit is a payment to help with living costs. It is being introduced in stages across the UK and will be fully rolled out by the end of 2023.

• Personal independence payment (PIP)

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the personal independence payment rates in force from 9 April 2019.

• Income support

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the income support rates in force from 9 April 2019.

• Industrial injuries disablement benefit

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the industrial injuries disablement benefit rates in force from 9 April 2019.

• Jobseeker's allowance

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the jobseeker’s allowance rates in force from 9 April 2019.

• Employment and support allowance (ESA)

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the employment and support allowance rates in force from 9 April 2019.

• 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).

• ECJ: Entitlement to social security benefit for non-nationals

  Date:

  1 May 2004

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Case C-138/02, Brian Francis Collins v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling on 23 March 2004 examining the extent to which national legislation may make entitlement to the UK benefit jobseeker's allowance conditional on a residence requirement.