Survivors of domestic abuse

• Benefits and domestic abuse
• Tools and templates
• Early Warning System

Benefits and domestic abuse

Information on the benefit rules for people who have experienced domestic abuse:

• Financial help for families fleeing domestic abuse 
• Unwanted payments of abuser’s benefit into your account 
• Exceptions to the two-child limit 
• Work-related requirements if you have recently experienced domestic abuse 
• Separated but living in the same property 
• Value of property and its effect on means-tested benefits 

Tools and templates

Tools

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:

•  Can the value of your property be disregarded? 

Our tools to help you work out benefit entitlement for migrants who have experienced domestic abuse (subscriber content): 

• Are you a ‘person subject to immigration control? 
• Do you have a right to reside?

Judicial review pre-action protocol template letters for advisers

• Judicial review pre-action template letters: Domestic abuse. 

For copies of the judicial review (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]).

Early Warning System

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:

• Contact the Early Warning System team