About Due to You

Why it exists

Every year, UK households miss billions of pounds of benefits they're entitled to. Not because people are dishonest, lazy, or indifferent — but because the rules are fragmented across four nations, four administering bodies, and hundreds of council schemes, and because the language they're written in is designed for case-workers, not claimants.

Due to You is a response to that: one place where you can find out what you might be owed, in plain English, with every figure traceable back to the government page it came from. No sign-up. No data kept. No advertising. No upsell.

How we work

• Every factual claim is linked to a named primary source (gov.uk, mygov.scot, gov.wales, or nidirect.gov.uk).
• Sources are archived in the Wayback Machine at the time of publication, so we can prove what the page said when we cited it.
• Every page carries a visible lastUpdated stamp.
• Every page is written by a named author and signed off by a named editorial reviewer.
• Pages older than six months without reverification are automatically flagged for review.
• Corrections are encouraged, logged, and acted on within days — not filed.

What this isn't

We publish general information, not personalised advice. For individual determinations, contact the authority responsible for the entitlement or a benefits advisor such as Citizens Advice. We're a reference, not a case-worker.

Who writes this

Editorial is led by Claire Donoghue, with review sign-off from the Due to You editorial review team. Every published page names its author and reviewer and is reverified on a rolling schedule tied to each administering body's uprating cycle.

How we fund this

Due to You is independently funded and not underwritten by a government department, political party, charity, or commercial benefits provider. To make our incentives explicit:

• No advertising. We don't sell display ads, sponsored placements, or programmatic inventory.
• No affiliate or referral income. We don't earn commission from financial products, insurance, debt services, or anything we link to.
• No data sales. We don't collect personal information from readers, don't run third-party cookies, and don't sell or share analytics.
• No paid-for editorial. Nobody can pay to appear, be framed favourably, or have a benefit promoted on this site.
• No upsell. The triage tool, calculators, and entitlement pages are free and will remain free.

If our funding model ever changes — for example if we accept philanthropic or public grants, or begin charging for an optional service — we'll disclose it here first, with a visible log of the change.

How to reach us

Spotted a figure that looks wrong, a link that's rotted, or guidance that has changed since we last checked? Use the corrections form. Corrections are logged and actioned within days; we don't silently update pages.

How to use us

Start with the triage tool. It asks 3–5 minutes of questions and returns a ranked list of benefits you look likely to qualify for, each linked to a detail page with the authoritative source. Or go straight to the nation hub for England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland and browse.

See our editorial policy for how we verify, review, and correct. See privacy for what we don't collect.