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Licence the benefits data that actually knows where your residents live
Every rate on this site carries a verification date and a source link · Public corrections log · Last data review 4 August 2026
Most UK benefits calculators are built for England and quietly assume the rest of the country works the same way. It does not. If you serve residents in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, an England-shaped answer is not a slightly imprecise answer — it is the wrong answer, and your team is the one who has to explain it.
The specific gap we fill
Social Security Scotland delivers fourteen benefits of its own. Wales runs its own Discretionary Assistance Fund and, since 1 April 2026, an entirely different NHS dental charging system. Northern Ireland has its own Housing Executive, its own rates system, its own Welfare Supplementary Payment mitigations, and reinstated automatic health-cost passporting for Universal Credit claimants on 1 December 2025.
We check the widely used consumer calculators regularly. As of 4 August 2026, the largest one still lists Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit — both of which ended on 5 April 2025 — and names no devolved benefit at all in its published list of what it covers.
That is the gap. We built for four nations from the start, and we publish the date we checked each figure.
What you can licence
| Component | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Devolution engine | Takes a postcode, works out which nation's rules apply, and returns the correct entitlements — including the ones that only exist in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Handles cross-border postcode areas by asking rather than guessing. | Live |
| Benefits checker | Consumer-facing entitlement check covering reserved and devolved systems. | Live |
| Letter decoder | Explains what a DWP, HMRC or council letter actually means and what the deadline is. | Live |
| Rates and thresholds data | Machine-readable current figures with a verification date and source URL on every value. | Live |
| Corrections feed | When a rate or rule changes, you are told — with the old value, the new value, the date and the source. | Live |
| Public API | REST access to the rates and devolution data for your own systems. | In development |
| White-label embed | Your branding, your domain, our engine. | In development |
| Adviser workspace | Multi-seat case view for frontline teams. | Roadmap |
We mark roadmap items as roadmap. If a component is not live yet, we will tell you that in the first conversation rather than at implementation.
Licence tiers
Annual licence, billed once, no per-seat charge and no per-lookup metering. Prices exclude VAT.
Community
Registered charities, credit unions, food banks, parish and community councils
£1,800
per year
- Devolution engine and benefits checker
- Letter decoder
- Corrections feed by email
- Attribution link required
Authority
District, borough, unitary and county councils; housing associations
£7,500
per year
- Everything in Community
- White-label embed on your domain
- Named contact, 2 working day response
- Annual accuracy report for your area
- No attribution required
Regional
Combined authorities, multi-council partnerships, national charities
£18,000
per year
- Everything in Authority
- Up to 10 branded instances
- API access when it ships
- Quarterly review call
Enterprise
National bodies, banks, utilities, insurers, government departments
From £35,000
per year
- Unlimited instances
- Full API and bulk data
- Custom data fields
- Security review and DPA
- Named account lead
Why these numbers
They are set deliberately below the comparable market. The main incumbent's published G-Cloud 14 rates run from roughly £2,550 to £37,100 per licence per year. We are a smaller supplier and we price like one. If your budget does not stretch to a tier, tell us what it is — for advice charities in particular we would rather have you using accurate data than not.
What you are actually buying
Correctness you can audit
Every figure we publish carries the date we last checked it and a link to the primary source — legislation.gov.uk, GOV.UK, mygov.scot, GOV.WALES or nidirect. Not a secondary summary. When something changes, it goes in a public corrections log with the old value, the new value and the date. You can check our work, and so can your residents.
Four nations, itemised
Not "we cover the whole UK" as a marketing line, but named benefits with named rules. Scottish Child Payment, Adult Disability Payment, Pension Age Disability Payment, Child Disability Payment, Carer Support Payment, Best Start Grant, Best Start Foods, Young Carer Grant, Funeral Support Payment, Job Start Payment, Scottish Welfare Fund. The Welsh Discretionary Assistance Fund and the post-April-2026 Welsh dental care-package system. Northern Ireland's Housing Executive, rates relief and Welfare Supplementary Payments.
Openness as a feature
Our robots.txt explicitly welcomes AI assistants — GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can all read us. When a resident asks an AI assistant about Council Tax Reduction in Fife, we would like the answer to be right. Most of our competitors block those crawlers, which means the assistants answer from whatever they can reach instead.
No dark patterns
The consumer site is free and stays free. We do not gate entitlement information behind a payment, we do not sell leads to claims-management firms, and we do not run affiliate offers inside a benefits result. Your residents will not be upsold anything. That is a licensing condition, not just a policy.
What we are not
We are not a regulated financial adviser and we do not give individual advice. We are not a claims-management company and we do not make claims on anyone's behalf. We do not replace your Citizens Advice partnership or your welfare rights team — we make their first ten minutes faster and stop them starting from an England-shaped answer.
How procurement usually goes
- Enquiry. You tell us your area and roughly how many residents you serve.
- Accuracy check. We run our engine against ten real scenarios from your area and send you the output before you pay anything. If it gets something wrong, you will see it.
- Paperwork. Licence agreement, DPA, and a security questionnaire if you need one. We are a UK company, CA Capital Limited, and the site runs on UK and EU infrastructure.
- Go live. Embed or link, depending on tier. Typically under two weeks.
Start with the accuracy check
It is free and there is no commitment. Send us ten scenarios from your area — the messy ones, the cross-border postcodes, the mixed-age couples — and we will send you what our engine returns, with the source behind each figure. If it does not hold up, you have lost an email.
Common questions
Do you hold our residents' data?
No. Benefit answers, health information and immigration status stay in the resident's own browser and are never sent to our servers. If a resident creates a free account, we store an email address and nothing else. That is deliberate — it keeps special category data under UK GDPR Article 9 out of our systems entirely, which makes your DPIA considerably shorter.
What happens if a rate changes mid-year?
It goes in the corrections log and you get an email the same week. April is the big one, but mid-year changes happen — the Universal Credit health element split on 6 April 2026 and the medical exemption certificate change on 16 July 2026 are both recent examples.
Can we see the source data?
Yes. Community tier and above get the machine-readable rates file. Enterprise gets bulk access and custom fields.
What if you go under?
Fair question for a small supplier. Enterprise licences include a data escrow clause so you keep the dataset. Ask and we will put the same clause in any tier.
Talk to us
Tell us who you serve and what is going wrong at the moment. We will tell you honestly whether we help.
SortedUK is a service of CA Capital Limited, registered in England and Wales. Prices exclude VAT and are correct as at 5 August 2026. Roadmap items are marked as such and are not warranted to ship on any particular date. The comparison figures for other suppliers are taken from their own published G-Cloud listings and public pages, checked on 4 August 2026.
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