Your welfare rights
This page is a shorter version of the welfare
rights links page and can be used if you are looking for advice yourself. You can use
these weblinks to find information about social security, debt, housing, immigration and
other areas of the law and to find where to get help.
Please
let me know about other useful websites or if any of these links don’t work.
These are links to external websites and I have no control over or responsibility
for the content of these websites and inclusion of a link on this page does not imply any
recommendation.
Benefits and tax credits rates
Benefits and tax credits rates card published by Blackpool & Lancashire
Councils
Advice websites
Action for Blind People: Resources about benefits & visual impairment
Advicekit: Manchester City
Council's on-line advice service for local residents
Advicenow: Accessible
information about a wide range of legal rights from Advice Services Alliance
Age Concern England: Advice factsheets
Age Concern Scotland: Advice factsheets
Angus
Council Welfare Rights Service: Pension Credit calculator (much better than the
DWP's!)
Barton Hill Advice Centre:
Guides to claiming disability benefits
Benefits in Mind: Neath
Mind's excellent site about benefits and mental health
Carers
UK: Information about benefits and carers' rights
Citizens Advice
Adviceguide: Information about a wide range of rights
Citizens Advice
Scotland Adviceguide
Community Legal Service Direct: Leaflets about a range of legal rights
Consumer
Direct: Consumer rights advice
Coventry
Law Centre: Employment rights leaflets (also about other subjects)
DFES: Education Maintenance
Allowances
DFES:
Care To Learn: Help with childcare costs for young parents aged 16+ who are in learning
DIAL
UK: Factsheets
Disability Alliance:
Several good factsheets about disability benefits
Department for Work and Pensions
DirectGov: Make online claims for benefits
DirectGov:
Benefits, tax credits and other information
DWP: On-line Pension Credit calculator
EAGA: Insulation &
draughtproofing grants
Electronic Immigration
Network: Public resources page of this useful website
Govan Law Centre:
Excellent Scots law resources about housing, employment, debt, benefits, etc
Greater Manchester
Low Pay Unit: Factsheets about employment rights
Healthy Start: Advice
about what it is and who qualifies New!
HM Revenue and Customs:
National Minimum Wage
HM Revenue and Customs: Tax Credit leaflets
HM
Revenue and Customs: Tax Credits info
HM
Revenue and Customs: Tax Credits ready reckoner
HMRC
Adjudicator's Office: For complaints about HMRC service and discretionary decisions (eg
refusal to waive a tax credit overpayment)
Immigration Advisory Service: Advice pages
Mencap: Factsheets
Multikulti: Rights
leaflets in thirteen languages
National
Debtline: Useful factsheets and self help packs
Northern
Ireland Law Centre: Northern Ireland social welfare law resources New!
Prescription Pricing
Authority: Information and claim forms for help with health costs
Quick Calculators
for Pension Credit, Tax Credits, HB & income tax
Rights
Advice Scotland: Online Pension Credit , HB & CTB calculator
Say no to 0870:
Geographical equivalents for 0870 and 0800 numbers, useful for mobile phone calls to DWP
& HMRC New!
Shelternet: Housing rights
advice
Scottish Association for Mental Health: Factsheets about benefits and
mental health
Support
4 learning: Info about financial support for all types of education/training
Tax Aid: Advice on tax issues
for people on low incomes
Tribunal Service: Includes
information about social security appeals procedure
Some local authority welfare rights websites with useful
resources
(There are many, here are a few)
Benefit Claim forms
DWP: Printable benefit claim forms
HM
Revenue and Customs: On-line claim form for Tax Credits
Pension
Credit: claim form
Some international Welfare Rights links
Comhairle
("corla"): Irish government advice and advocacy site which doesn't feel like a
government website!
Jersey Citizens
Advice: social security and other matters in Jersey
States of Guernsey: Social security
Isle of Man: Social
security
Northern
Ireland Social Security Agency: Legally part of the UK but has a separate benefits system
Links to
international social security websites: from Ireland's Ministry of Social Welfare
