What benefits do i get as a non resident british citizen?

I'm myself an overseas Brit, and looked into this myself a while back. Frankly, I discovered that as a UK citizen all you are entitled to is to live in the UK. That pretty much concludes it. Now, obviously you can move back to the UK and eventually regain some of the social services available to UK citizens that reside in the UK. The first thing you should do is apply for a NHS card upon arrival. However, bear in mind that your application might be rejected as you have to prove that you've permanently moved to the UK. The next thing you may want to do (see my citation below) is to take the "habitual residence test". In all likelihood you'll fail this one a few times as you probably do not meet the residency criteria (since you lived outside the UK most of your life). However, eventually given enough time and signing up in a couple of clubs, getting a job, etc, you'll probably pass it and then be entitled to social services.

The NHS lists the benefits as those:
Attendance Allowance
Carer's Allowance
Child Benefit
Child Tax Credit
Disability Living Allowance
Housing Benefit
Income Support
Jobseeker's Allowance.

Nothing. You haven't paid in, so you can't take out.

Non residents are not entitled to use the NHS except in an emergency and pregnancy is not an emergency.

You will have to establish habitual residency to be eligible for any benefits. This usually takes between three to six months.

Housing is in short supply and is allocated on a points system. A single adult with mo tie to the area is unlikely to be allocated any points. Unless you have lived in the area for some years, you are unlikely to get anything, certainly not a council house. If you arrive back in the UK destitute and as a single person, the best you could probably hope for is either hostel accommodation or private landlord emergency accommodation which is basically what councils rent off landlords because the accommodation is so poor that nobody will pay rent for it.

Unless you have savings to cover your first few months, you are going to be literally destitute.

Edit. Have you by any chance been living in another EEA country? If so, you can claim any benefits you are entitled to in your current country of residence, usually for at least three months, sometimes as long as six months.

You will NOT be entitled to any benefits since you have not paid into the system and have been a non resident.

no chance ,,, why should you,, next I suppose you will want a hose as well ,, claim were you are

Hmm... troll?!

No. You get nothing from the UK regardless of where you come from unless you are an assylum seeker and at fear of death or torture... which you're not.

No benefits. why because you not been paying in to the system. You would have to be living the UK for few years before you can claim any benefits.

Not sure about benefits but I doubt very much the social housing. There are many people on the waiting list and you have to gain points from the authority where you live. You don't have an address in the UK so which local authority were you thinking approaching? At best you will be put in B&B accommodation, which is reserved for the homeless, not a suitable environment to bring a baby in. If you are considering council housing then obviously you don't have not a lot of disposable income at the moment. There is plenty of private housing available and you wont be troubled by the new bedroom tax. The cost of private is not too different than council/social housing. The rules on who can claim benefit and how much seem to be changing daily.