Money and financial inclusion

Guidance and services

• Get help with the cost of living
• Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF)
• Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF): application form
• Discretionary Assistance Fund: requesting a review
• Apply to be a Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF) network partner
• Discretionary Assistance Fund: complaints
• Save, bank or borrow with a credit union
• Get financial or debt advice
• Get advice about managing credit
• Get cost of living support and advice from your local authority
• Get help with housing costs
• Find out about Discretionary Housing Payments
• Get help with your utility bills
• Get help with your wellbeing and the wellbeing of other people
• Become an information and advice quality framework accrediting body
• Information and advice quality framework (IAQF): standard owners guidance
• Get help paying your mortgage with a Help to Stay shared equity loan
• Help to Stay - Wales: application form and guidance
• Cost of Living Support Scheme: guide for local authorities
• Single Advice Fund: privacy notice
• Discretionary Assistance Fund: privacy notice
• Wales fuel support scheme: privacy notice
• Here to help with the cost of living user research privacy notice
• WIMD 2025 feedback survey: privacy information for respondents

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

• Discretionary Assistance Fund (DAF): financial summaries
  Collection
• Information and advice quality framework
  Policy and strategy
• Information and advice quality framework: guidance on quality standards
  Policy and strategy
• National Advice Network
  Policy and strategy
• Poverty related statistics
  Collection
• Different structures for delivering public services using social housing as a case study area
  Report
• National Lottery Community Fund spending priorities for National Lottery funding
  Policy and strategy
• Response to the cost of living crisis: distributional analysis
  Report
• UK strategy for financial wellbeing: delivery plan for Wales
  Policy and strategy
• Social welfare information and advice: action plan and progress
  Collection
• National Survey for Wales: wellbeing and finances
  Collection
• Wales fuel support scheme: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Cabinet Sub-Committee on Cost of Living
  Collection
• Report of the Wales Expert Group on the cost of living crisis
  Report
• Developing the co-operative and mutuals economy: reports
  Collection