Work, skills and financial support

Guidance and services

• Get financial help to pay your bills during the coronavirus pandemic
  Financial support to help pay your rent, mortgage or bills if you are currently working, self-employed, ill and cannot work, been made redundant or on furlough.
• Self-isolation support scheme
  You could get a payment of £750 to help with loss of earnings if you’ve been told to self-isolate for a period starting on or after the 7 August 2021 and cannot work from home.
• Find your local authority to apply for a self-isolation payment
  You can apply for a payment of £750 from your local authority if you’ve been told to self-isolate and cannot work from home.
• Self-isolation support scheme: privacy notice
  Privacy notice for Self-isolation support scheme.
• Get financial or debt advice
  Services offering free impartial money and debt advice.
• Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF)
  The Discretionary Assistance Fund provides 2 types of grant that you do not need to pay back.
• Apply for a loan to help pay your rent arrears due to coronavirus
  You can apply for a Tenancy Saver Loan from a credit union if you’ve not been able to pay your rent due to coronavirus.
• Problems paying your mortgage during the coronavirus pandemic
  What to do if you cannot pay your mortgage, missed a payment or your lender is trying to repossess your home.
• Problems paying your rent during the coronavirus pandemic
  What to do if you are struggling to pay your rent to your landlord, council or housing association and help to pay it.
• Check if your employer can get help to keep you employed
  Until 30 September 2021 employers could get money to keep you on the payroll during the coronavirus pandemic.
• COVID-19 statutory sick pay enhancement scheme
  Support for care workers who are required to self-isolate or stay off work to protect the people they care for.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Review of the COVID-19 self-isolation payment scheme survey: privacy notice
  Detailed guide
  Privacy notice for a survey reviewing the Self-isolation support scheme.