The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet from a low income and includes: Winter Fuel Payments Cold Weather Payments Funeral Payments. Advances of Benefit are a form of payment that replaced the discreti
This factsheet aims to help you understand Council Tax liability and payment Eligibility for Council Tax Support schemes Other ways of reducing you Council Tax bill
This factsheet gives information about homelessness. It explains how your local authority can help you if you are homeless and the circumstances in which it has a duty to rehouse you. Information on the allocation of council and housing association housi
This factsheet provides information on a tenants right to keep their home (security of tenure). It explains how different tenancies offer different levels of security, meaning some tenants can be evicted more easily than others.
This factsheet provides information about finding private rented accommodation. It includes information about letting agencies, what to consider when viewing a property and things to think through before signing a tenancy agreement.
This factsheet provides information about what your landlord can charge you in rent, depending on the type of tenancy you have.
This factsheet gives information about applying for housing from local authorities and housing associations ('social housing'). It explains how applications for social housing are assessed, how waiting lists are organised and how properties are allocated.
This factsheet explains intermediate care and reablement. These terms describe short-term NHS and social care support that aims to help you: avoid unnecessary admission to hospital be as independent as possible after an unplanned hospital stay or il
This factsheet provides information about later life for transgender (or trans) people. The main focus is on growing older for people who have transitioned and live their lives permanently in their affirmed gender. It also provides information for people
This factsheet explains how to find an NHS dentist, charges for NHS treatment, and how receiving certain benefits or the NHS low income scheme may help with the cost of NHS treatment.
This factsheet offers tips on reducing water bills and how to save water. It provides information on switching to a meter and how you can get help with the costs of water if you are eligible for the WaterSure Scheme.
This guide explains what to expect when going into hospital, what should happen while you’re in hospital, and the steps that should be taken to prepare for your discharge.
This guide pulls together information, services and products that Age UK, Age Cymru and Age NI provide for people in later life.
This guide outlines the help you may be able to receive and signposts to relevant organisations to get personal care, adapting our home to suit our needs, or receiving benefits.
This guide looks at how to find a care home, how to arrange and pay for care.
If you or someone close has suffered a bereavement, this guide offers practical and emotional support after a death.
This guide provides a clear checklist of an executor’s duties, including how to register the death, sort out Inheritance Tax and deal with different assets.
There can be many things to think about, from making a will to choosing who you would like to make decisions for you if you were no longer able to.
This guide offers practical tips on how to avoid a scam, including the different ways a fraudster may approach you.
Many of the issues relating to planning for later life are the same whether you are gay or straight.
