Resources and information for people advising survivors of domestic abuse.
Relevant to
all of the UK
Information on the benefit rules for people who have experienced domestic abuse:
Use our tool to check if the value of a property you own can be ignored when working out your UC entitlement, if you have left it due to domestic abuse and create a note for your UC journal:
Our tools to help you work out benefit entitlement for migrants who have experienced domestic abuse (subscriber content):
Check our judicial review (JR) pre-action protocol template letters relating to domestic abuse and:
For copies of the JR template letters, advice about whether JR is the appropriate route, and for help with adapting the templates, contact our Judicial Review Project ([email protected]).
Permission to apply for Judicial Review has been granted in our test case challenging the requirement, if an exception to the two-child limit is to apply on the basis of non-consensual conception, that it is the third or subsequent child within the family that is conceived non-consensually
Find out about our training courses on benefits and domestic abuse:
Our Early Warning System gathers information and evidence on how changes to the benefit system impact on the wellbeing of children and their families. To inform our work, send us details of cases: