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Our Help to Claim Project can support you to make a new claim for Universal Credit. We will start by checking Universal Credit is the right benefit for you. If it is, we will support you with your claim and through to your first payment.
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Visit the Universal Credit pages on our website and go to ‘Talk to an Adviser’ in the bottom right hand corner