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.
Advice websites
Action for Blind People: Useful resources about benefits & visual
impairment
Advicekit: Manchester City
Council's innovative on-line advice service
Advicenow: Accessible
information about a wide range of legal rights
Age Concern England: Advice factsheets
Age Concern and Help the Aged Scotland: Advice factsheets
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 Advice: Leaflets about a range of legal rights
Consumer Direct:
Consumer rights advice
Coventry
Law Centre: Employment rights leaflets (also about other subjects)
Education Maintenance
Allowances
Care To Learn: Help with childcare costs for young parents aged 16+ who are
in learning
DIAL
UK: Factsheets
DirectGov:
Benefits, tax credits and other information
DirectGov:
Make online claims for benefits
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
Immigration
Advisory Service
Independent
Review Service: Social Fund reviews and related matters
Leasehold Advisory Service:
Legal rights of residential leaseholders (e.g.service charges)
LHA
Direct: Local Housing Allowances for each local authority/Broad Rental Market Area
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
Say no to 0870: Geographical
equivalents for 0870 and 0800 numbers, useful for mobile phone calls to DWP & HMRC
Shelternet:
Housing advice
Veterans Agency:
Information about War Pensions, etc
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 and Retirement Pension: claim forms
