Social security benefits

New and updated

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Personal independence payment (PIP)

  Updated to reflect the personal independence payment rates in force from 6 April 2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Universal credit

  Updated to reflect the universal credit rates in force from 6 April 2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Employment and support allowance (ESA)

  Updated to reflect the employment and support allowance rates in force from 3 April 2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Income support

  Updated to reflect the income support rates in force from 3 April 2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Industrial injuries disablement benefit

  Updated to reflect the industrial injuries disablement benefit rates in force from 3 April 2022.

• Type:

  Statutory rates

  Jobseeker's allowance

  Updated to reflect the jobseeker’s allowance rates in force from 3 April 2022.

• Date:

  27 October 2021

  Type:

  News

  Budget 2021: Pay rises, scale up visa and universal credit reforms announced

  Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed wage increases for the lowest paid workers and public sector staff in his Budget today, as well as changes to Universal Credit (Wednesday 27 October).

• Date:

  14 October 2005

  Type:

  Law reports

  ECJ decision on job-seekers' allowance

  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).

• Date:

  1 May 2004

  Type:

  Law reports

  ECJ: Entitlement to social security benefit for non-nationals

  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.