Aid Audit checks your household against 406 public benefits across four European welfare systems, ranks what you are likely to receive, and cites the law behind every answer.
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Across the European Union and the United Kingdom, tens of billions in statutory benefits go unclaimed every year. The EU range is estimated at thirty to fifty billion euros, with the UK adding a comparable gap on top. Housing support, child allowances, disability supplements, training grants, fuel allowances, health card top-ups, tax credits… All money that is legally yours, sitting in a department that is waiting for a form it never told you existed.
The gap is not a mystery. The European Union runs twenty seven welfare regimes. The United Kingdom runs a twenty eighth. Each is written in its own language, organised around its own agencies, and built on forms designed for the citizen the state imagines, not the one filling them in. Eligibility for a single household can sit across four ministries and three regions.
Aid Audit reads those rules so a household does not have to. We encode the eligibility logic, run it against a twelve minute questionnaire, and return a ranked list of every benefit a household is likely owed, with the statute, agency and application route attached to each one.
[01]Estimates of non-take-up vary by study, country, and benefit family. Figures in the thirty to fifty billion euro range are consistent with OECD and European Commission non-take-up literature, with comparable gaps documented separately for the UK. Primary sources cited per benefit in the audit itself.
A twelve-minute check, source-cited.
Tell us where you live and your situation.
Country, region, household composition, employment status, income band. Plain language, no jargon. Nothing leaves your device until you choose to send it.
We check 406 benefits against your household.
Every benefit is encoded as a rule set drawn directly from the governing statute or scheme document. The check runs against your answers, not a generic profile.
We rank what you are owed, with the source for each.
Results are sorted by how confident we are regarding your eligibility. Sources are included for each.
plus a fifth state, ineligible with reasons, for benefits a household does not currently qualify for.
We hand you the application walkthrough.
Documents required, deadlines, the agency to contact, and the appeal route if a claim is refused. One page per benefit, written plainly for clear communication.
The benefits are real. The system that delivers them is fragmented.
A single household can be eligible for housing support from one ministry, a child allowance from another, a fuel allowance from a third agency, and a tax credit administered by a fourth. Each comes with its own form, its own portal, its own evidence list, and its own definition of what counts as a household. Nobody sits across the whole picture.
Public information about benefits is written for the people who already work in them. Pages list every condition, every exclusion, every legal reference, with no order of priority. If you do not already know what you are looking for, the page cannot tell you.
The cost of being wrong is asymmetric. Apply for a benefit you are not entitled to and the worst case is rejection. Fail to apply for one you are entitled to and the money is gone, sometimes for years, sometimes for good.
Studies by the IMF and World Bank have flagged parts of European welfare delivery as among the least effective in the developed world at reducing poverty, not for lack of spending, but for failure of delivery.IMF and World Bank social protection assessments, 2020s
Built for households the system tends to lose.
Low-income households
Income-tested supports, housing assistance, fuel and utility allowances, school meal schemes.
Students and recent graduates
Maintenance grants, rent supplements, training stipends, transition allowances after graduation.
Freelancers and gig workers
Self-employed safety nets, income-smoothing benefits, sickness cover designed for irregular earnings.
Recent movers and migrants
Cross-border entitlements, registration windows, integration supports, residence-linked allowances.
Carers and parents
Child benefits, carer's payments, parental leave top-ups, disability supplements for dependants.
Retirees on fixed income
State pension extras, household benefits packages, medical cards, heating supplements.
Help us decide where to launch next.
The waitlist is how we choose the order of the next countries. Every signup comes with a country, and every country with enough demand moves up the build queue. If you want Aid Audit where you live, joining is the most direct way to say so.
- 01Early access to the private beta in your country.
- 02Priority when your country goes live.
- 03Founder updates as new markets are added.
- 04Opportunity to shape the early experience.
- 05A say in which countries we encode next.
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The benefits are already yours. We just help you find them.