Updated: Added 5 jobcentre areas: Arbroath, Blairgowrie, Forfar, Montrose and Perth.
You may be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area listed below. Further jobcentre areas will be added to this list as Universal Credit expands.
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Latest updates
The tables below were last updated on 25 April 2016 with the following areas added:
Arbroath
Blairgowrie
Forfar
Montrose
Perth
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning A – B
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Aberdare
Aberdeen, Ebury House
Abergavnny
Abertillery
Aberystwyth
Abingdon
Accrington*
Acton
Aintree*
Airdrie
Aldershot
Alexandra Park, Manchester*
Alexandria
Alfreton
Alloa
Alnwick
Alton
Altrincham*
Amlwch (new claims taken at Llangefni)
Ammanford
Andover
Annan
Anniesland, Glasgow
Arbroath
Arnold
Ashford
Ashington
Ashton-in-Makerfield*
Ashton-under-Lyne*
Atherstone
Atherton*
Aylesbury
Ayre
Banbury
Banff
Bangor
Bargoed
Barking
Barnet
Barnsbury
Barnsley
Barrhead
Barrow-in-Furness*
Barry
Barton-upon-Humber
Basildon
Basingstoke
Bath*
Bathgate
Batley
Beccles
Bedford
Bedlington
Bedminster
Bedworth
Beeston
Belle Vale, Liverpool*
Bellshill
Belper
Berwick
Beverley
Bexhill
Bexleyheath
Bideford
Biggleswade
Billingham
Bilston
Birkenhead*
Birmingham City
Birmingham South West
Bishop Auckland
Bishopsworth
Blackburn*
Blackpool North* (new claims taken at Blackpool South)
Blackpool South*
Blackwood
Blairgowrie
Blandford
Blaydon
Blyth
Bodmin
Bognor Regis
Bolsover
Bolton Black Horse Street*
Bolton Great Moor Street*
Bootle*
Borehamwood
Bordon
Boston
Bournemouth
Bracknell
Bradford Eastbrook Court
Bradford Westfield House
Braintree
Brecon
Brentwood
Bridlington
Bridgend
Bridgeton, Glasgow
Bridgnorth
Bridgwater
Bridport
Brighouse
Brighton
Bristol Central
Brixham
Brixton
Broad Street, Birmingham
Bromborough*
Bromley
Bromsgrove
Brownhills
Broxburn
Buckie
Bude
Bulwell
Burnley*
Burton upon Trent
Bury*
Bury St Edmunds
Buxton
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning C – D
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Caernarfon
Caerphilly
Caldicot
Campbeltown
Camberley
Cambridge
Cambuslang
Canning Town
Cannock
Canterbury
Canvey Island
Cardiff Alexandra House
Cardiff Charles Street
Cardigan
Carlisle*
Carmarthen
Castleford
Castlemilk, Glasgow
Chatham
Cheetham Hill*
Chelmsford
Chelmsley Wood
Cheltenham
Chepstow
Chesham
Chester*
Chesterfield
Chester-le-Street
Chichester
Chippenham
Chorley*
Chorlton*
Cinderford
Cirencester
City Tower, London
Clacton
Clapham Common
Clay Cross
Clevedon
Clitheroe*
Clydebank
Coalville
Colchester
Coleford
Colne*
Colwyn Bay
Congleton*
Consett
Corby
Cosham
Coventry Tile Hill
Coventry Cofa Court
Cowdenbeath
Cramlington
Crawley
Crewe*
Cromer
Crook
Crosby*
Cumbernauld
Cumnock
Cupar
Cwmbran
Dagenham
Dalkeith
Dalston
Darlington
Dartford
Darwen*
Daventry
Derby, Normanton Road
Derby, Forester House
Dereham
Devizes
Devonport
Dewsbury
Didcot
Didsbury*
Dingwall
Dinnington
Diss
Dolgellau
Doncaster
Dover
Drumchapel, Glasgow
Dudley
Dumbarton
Dumfries
Dundee Wellgate
Dunfermline
Dunoon
Dunstable
Durham
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning E – G
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Ealing
Eastbourne
Easterhouse, Glasgow
Eastleigh
East Ham
East Kilbride
Easton, Bristol
Ebbw Vale
Eccles*
Edge Hill, Liverpool*
Edgware
Edinburgh City
Edmonton
Elgin
Ellesmere Port*
Eltham
Ely
Enfield
Epsom
Erdington
Eston
Evesham
Everton*
Exeter
Eyemouth
Fakenham
Falkirk
Fareham
Farnborough
Farnworth*
Felixstowe
Felling
Finchley
Finsbury Park
Fleetwood*
Flint
Folkestone
Forest Hill
Forfar
Forres
Fort William
Fraserburgh
Frome
Fulham
Gainsborough
Galashiels
Garston, Liverpool*
Gateshead
Girvan
Glenrothes
Glossop
Gloucester
Goldthorpe
Goole
Gorseinon
Gosport
Govan, Glasgow
Grangemouth
Grantham
Gravesend
Grays
Greenock
Grimsby
Guildford
Guisborough
Guiseley
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning H – J
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Hackney
Halesowen
Halifax
Hamilton
Hammersmith*
Handsworth
Hanley
Harlesden
Harlow
Hartlepool
Harrogate*
Harrow
Harwich
Hastings
Hatfield
Havant
Haverfordwest
Haverhill
Hawick
Hayes
Haywards Heath
Heanor
Helensburgh
Helston
Hemel Hempstead
Hemsworth
Hendon
Hereford
Herne Bay
Hertford
Hessle
Heywood*
Hexham
Hinckley
Highgate
High Riggs, Edinburgh
High Wycombe
Holyhead
Honiton
Horfield, Bristol
Hornchurch
Horsham
Houghton-le-Spring
Hounslow (*available to couples/people with children in certain postcode areas)
Hove
Hoxton
Hoylake*
Huddersfield
Hull, Britannia House
Hull, Market Place
Huntingdon
Huyton*
Hyde*
Hythe, Hampshire
Ilkeston
Immingham
Invergordon
Inverness*
Ipswich (including the MyGo youth employment centre)
Irlam*
Irvine
Jarrow
Johnstone
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning K – M
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Keighley
Kendal*
Kennington Park
Kentish Town
Kettering
Kidderminster
Kidsgrove
Kilbirnie
Kilburn
Killingworth
Kilmarnock
Kings Heath
King’s Lynn
Kingston
Kingswood, Bristol
Kirkby*
Kircaldy
Kirkintilloch
Kirkwall
Lanark
Lancaster*
Langside, Glasgow
Launceston
Laurieston, Glasgow
Leamington Spa
Leeds, Eastgate
Leeds, Park Place
Leeds, Southern House
Leicester, Charles Street
Leicester, New Walk
Leicester, Wellington Street
Leigh*
Leighton Buzzard
Leiston
Leith
Leominster
Lerwick
Letchworth
Leven
Lewes
Lewisham
Leyland*
Leytonstone
Lichfield
Lincoln Orchard Street
Liskeard
Littlehampton
Livingston
Llanddrindod Wells
Llandudno
Llaneli
Llangefni
Llantrisant
Loftus
London Bridge* (available in certain postcode areas only)
Long Eaton
Longsight*
Longton
Loughborough
Loughton
Louth
Lowestoft
Luton
Lymington
Lytham St Anne’s*
Macclesfield*
Machynlleth
Madeley
Maesteg
Maidenhead
Maidstone
Maltby
Malvern
Mansfield Hill House
Margate
Market Drayton
Market Harborough
Maryhill, Glasgow
Matlock
Melton Mowbray
Merthyr Tydfil
Mexborough
Middlesborough
Middlesborough East
Middleton*
Mildenhall
Milford Haven
Milton Keynes
Minehead
Mitcham
Mold
Montrose
Morecambe*
Morley
Morpeth
Morriston
Motherwell
Mountain Ash
Musselburgh
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning N – Q
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Neath
Nelson*
Newark
Newbury
Newcastle City
Newcastle East
Newcastle West
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newhaven
Newlands, Glasgow
Newmarket
Newport
Newport, Isle of Wight
Newquay
Newton Abbott
Newton Aycliffe
Newton Heath*
Newton-le-Willows*
Newtown
Norris Green, Liverpool*
North Kensington
North Shields
North Walsham
Northallerton
Northampton
Northwich*
Norwich
Nottingham, Loxley House
Nottingham, Parliament Street
Nottingham, Station Street
Nuneaton
Oban
Oldbury
Oldham*
Openshaw*
Ormskirk*
Oswestry
Oxford
Paisley
Palmers Green
Parkhead, Glasgow
Partick, Glasgow
Peckham
Pembroke Dock
Penarth
Penicuik
Penrith*
Penryn and Falmouth
Penzance
Perry Barr
Perth
Peterborough
Peterhead
Peterlee
Petersfield
Plaistow
Plymouth
Pontefract
Pontypool
Pontypridd
Poole
Poplar
Port Glasgow
Port Talbot
Porth
Porthcawl
Porthmadog
Portree
Portsmouth
Preston*
Prestwich*
Pudsey
Pwllheli
Pyle
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning R – T
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Ramsgate
Rawtenstall*
Rayleigh
Reading
Redbridge
Redcar
Redditch
Redhill
Redruth
Renfrew
Retford
Rhyl
Richmond
Ringwood
Rochdale*
Romford
Ross-on-Wye
Rotherham
Rothesay
Rugby*
Runcorn*
Rushden
Rusholme*
Rutherglen
Ryde
Ryedale
St Albans
St Andrews
St Austell
St Helens*
St Marylebone
Salford*
Salisbury
Saltcoats
Scarborough
Scunthorpe
Seacroft
Seaham
Selby
Selly Oak
Sheerness
Sheffield, Bailey Court
Sheffield, Cavendish Court
Sheffield, Chambers Court
Sheffield, Eastern Avenue
Sheffield, Hillsborough
Sheffield, Woodhouse
Shepherds Bush
Shettleston, Glasgow
Shipley
Shirebrook
Shirehampton, Bristol
Shotton*
Shrewsbury
Sittingbourne
Skegness
Skelmersdale*
Skipton
Sleaford
Slough
Smethwick
Solihull
South Shields
Southall
Southampton
Southend
Southport*
Southwick
Spalding
Sparkhill
Spen Valley
Spennymoor
Springburn, Glasgow
Stafford
Staines
Stalybridge*
Stamford
Stanley
Staveley, Chesterfield
Stirling
Stockport*
Stockton
Stockwell
Stornoway
Stourbridge
Stowmarket
Stranraer
Stratford
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stretford*
Stevenage
Streatham
Stroud
Sudbury
Sunderland
Sutton* ( available in certain postcode areas only )
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton in Ashfield
Swadlincote
Swansea
Swindon
Tamworth
Taunton
Telford
Tewkesbury
Thetford
Thornaby
Thorne
Tipton
Tiverton
Todmorden
Tonbridge
Tonypandy
Torquay
Totnes
Tottenham
Toxteth*
Tredegar
Treorchy
Trowbridge
Truro
Tunbridge Wells
Twickenham
Jobcentre areas where you can claim Universal Credit, beginning U – Z
If you live with your partner, or have children, you will only be able to claim Universal Credit if you live in a jobcentre area that is marked with an asterisk (*).
Jobcentre areas
Upton*
Uxbridge
Wakefield
Wallasey*
Walsall Bayard House
Walsall Bridle Court
Wallsend
Waltham Cross
Walthamstow
Wandsworth
Warrington*
Washington
Washwood Heath
Watford
Wavertree*
Wellingborough
Wellington
Wells
Welshpool
Wembley
West Bromwich
West Derby, Liverpool*
Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
Westminster
Weston Super Mare
Weybridge
Weymouth
Wick
Whitby
Whitchurch
Whitehaven*
Whitley Bay
Whitstable
Widnes*
Wigan*
Willenhall
Willesden
Williamson Square, Liverpool*
Wilmslow*
Winchester
Winsford*
Winton
Wisbech
Witham
Witney
Woking
Wolverhampton, Chapel Court
Wolverhampton, Molineux House
Wombwell
Woodbridge
Wood Green
Woolwich
Worcester
Workington*
Worksop
Worsley*
Worthing
Wrexham
Wythenshawe*
Yardley, Birmingham
Yate
Yeovil
York Monkgate
Ystradgynlais
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