Financial support

To make an accurate calculation to determine household income and eligibility, we need to see evidence of all relevant household income. We also need this to comply with our audit requirements and to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly. We will have to decline your application if you do not submit the correct evidence. Lack of evidence or the wrong evidence will cause delay with your application.

Copies, not original documents should be provided, as we are not able to return original documents to you.

If you receive Universal Credit, you need to provide:

• All pages of the latest 3 Universal Credit Award Notices (to do this click on each date in your portal which will then provide your full breakdown which can be downloaded as a PDF and/or printed)
• Any other applicable documents listed below.

If you do not receive Universal Credit, you need to provide all of the following that apply:

• Wage slips/salary evidence (latest three months)
• Evidence of self-employment income (e.g. your HMRC tax calculation)
• Latest Child/Working Tax Credit Award Notice (all pages)
• Latest Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Support (including amount) Award Letter
• Any other state benefit (e.g. ESA, Carer’s Allowance, State Pension, Income Support) latest award notice
• Pension Credit (latest award notice)
• Any other income such as child maintenance or private pension, rental income, etc. (latest award notice/last 3 months evidence).