Skip to content
Gingerbread
Find your local group Log In Contact Us Donate
Find your local group Log In
Menu
  • Home
  • What we do
  • Information
  • Skills & learning
  • Policy & campaigns
  • Community
  • Support us
  • Contact us
DonateContact UsSearch

Search

  • About Gingerbread
  • Jobs
  • News
  • Media centre
  • Contact us
  • Christmas
  • Benefits, tax credits and universal credit
  • Bereavement
  • Childcare
  • Child maintenance
  • Children of Single Parents
  • Contact arrangements
  • Disabled single parents
  • Education
  • Holidays
  • Housing
  • If you don’t live with your children
  • Legal help and responsibilities
  • LGBT+ single parents
  • Managing money and debt
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption
  • Moving in with a new partner
  • Separating
  • Support for single dads
  • Working
  • About our training
  • Find a training course
  • Supporting young single parents as a practitioner
  • General Election 2019
  • Our campaigns
  • Publications
  • Childcare
  • Child maintenance
  • Employment and skills
  • Families and relationships
  • Living standards and poverty
  • Welfare reform
  • Stories
  • Online forum
  • Single parent groups
  • Become a Gingerbread member
  • Tips from single parents
  • Help Single Parents Thrive
  • Donate
  • Other ways to give
  • Fundraise for us
  • How your support helps
  • Corporate Support
  • Our funders
  • Thank you for getting in touch
  • Suggestions and complaints
  • Ask an adviser
  • Helpline
Home Media Information Benefits, tax credits and universal credit Universal Credit Common questions about Universal Credit Questions
Common questions about Universal Credit

Questions

Share Tweet Share Email Print page
  • Information
  • Benefits, tax credits and universal credit
    • If you have a disability or health issue
    • If you’re working
      • Self employment and benefits
    • If your child is under 5
    • If your circumstances change
    • Universal Credit
      • Getting an early payment
      • If you’re struggling with your rent or other bills
      • Job-seeking rules for single parents
      • What is Universal Credit?
      • When will I have to start claiming?
      • Common questions about Universal Credit
    • About benefits and tax credits
      • Benefits and tax credits rates
      • All about the benefit cap
    • Benefit calculators
      • Benefit finder for teenage parents
      • Benefit calculator
    • If you’re not working
      • Claiming jobseeker’s allowance and other benefits
      • Jobseeker’s allowance – special rules for single parents
      • Using Jobcentre plus ‘Moving to work’ schemes
      • Sanctions
      • If you receive a sanction
    • If you’re planning to study
      • Benefits and tax credits while you’re studying
      • Money for further education students
      • Money for higher education students
    • If you have 2 or more children
    • When your child turns 16 or leaves education
      • If your child is turning 16 or 18
  • Bereavement
  • Childcare
    • Tips & FAQs about childcare
    • Your childcare options with universal credit
    • Finding childcare if you don’t have a job
    • Childcare options if you have a job
  • Child maintenance
    • How to complain to the Child Support Agency
    • Making arrangements for child maintenance
    • Using the Child Maintenance Service (CMS)
    • Enforcing payments
      • Enforcing payment of child maintenance
      • Enforcing payment of CMS child maintenance
      • Enforcing payment of CSA child maintenance
      • Child maintenance enforcement
    • Child maintenance charges
    • Domestic abuse and child maintenance
    • Challenging your calculation
      • Challenging your Child Maintenance Service calculation
      • Challenging your CSA child maintenance calculation
  • Children of Single Parents
    • Children who have lost a parent
    • Children whose parents are splitting up
  • Contact arrangements
    • Making arrangements for your children
  • Disabled single parents
  • Education
    • Finances for single parent students
  • Holidays
  • Housing
    • Bedroom tax
    • Discretionary housing payments (DHP)
    • Homelessness
    • Housing options if you’re a homeowner
    • Renting: your options as a single parent
    • Your housing rights when you separate
  • If you don’t live with your children
  • Legal help and responsibilities
    • Changing your child’s name
    • EU Settlement Scheme
    • Help when you can’t agree
    • Parental responsibility
    • Getting legal help
  • LGBT+ single parents
  • Managing money and debt
    • Dealing with debt
    • Money in an emergency
    • Making ends meet
    • Turn2us Grants Search
  • Maternity, paternity and adoption
    • FAQ: pregnancy and your rights at work
    • Money during maternity, paternity and adoption
    • Maternity
    • Maternity rights at work for single parents
  • Moving in with a new partner
  • Separating
    • Action to take when a relationship ends
    • Support for you
    • Support for your child
    • Communicating with your child’s other parent
    • Legal issues
    • Safety
    • Your home
    • Money
  • Support for single dads
    • More about child maintenance
    • Single dads: money
    • Taking time off work as a single parent
  • Working
    • Changing your hours, job or pay
    • Flexible working
    • Leaving work
    • Self employment
    • Starting work
      • Financial help when starting work
    • Your rights in the workplace
  • You and your child’s wellbeing
    • Looking after your emotional health
    • Mental Health
    • Support for children and young people
  • Young single parents
    • Teenage parent’s benefits finder
  • Information for Practitioners

Want to speak to other single parents?

Explore our forum

About Gingerbread

We’re the leading national charity working with single parent families. We provide expert advice, practical support and campaign for single mums and dads.

Useful Links

  • News
  • Online forum
  • Contact us
  • Newsletter sign up
  • Privacy policy
  • T&Cs and more

Social

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families, is registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee, no. 402748, and a registered charity, no. 230750

© Gingerbread 2017

Website by Reason Digital

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.Accept Reject Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Necessary Always Enabled

Non-necessary