Allowances

Find out who to contact about your allowance payments.

Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

If you were born after 8 April 1948

Phone | 0800 121 4600

Or if you’re hard of hearing and you want to use a Text Relay Service(opens in a new window), on 18001 then 0800 121 4600

If you were born before 8 April 1948

Phone | 0800 731 0122

Or if you’re hard of hearing and you want to use a Text Relay Service(opens in a new window), on 18001 then 0800 731 0122

Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

Department for Communities (NI)

War Pensioners' Mobility Supplement (WPMS) or Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP)

Veterans UK

When the helpline is closed, you'll be given the option to speak to The Samaritans instead, they're open all day.

Child Disability Payment, Adult Disability Payment or Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance

Social Security Scotland