Benefits Advice Service
How can the Benefits Advice Service help?
Do you have difficulty with tasks such as getting dressed, washing, preparing a meal or moving around indoors?
Do you provide help to someone who has these difficulties?
If the answer is yes, the Benefits Advice Service may be able to help you. How we can help:
- We provide a confidential service to help people make a claim for Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance and Carers Allowance.
- We can provide benefits calculations to enable access to other benefits such as pension credit or council tax benefit.
- We are able to offer home visits to people who are unable to come into the office for an appointment.
Which Benefits do we help with?
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is:
- For people who are under 65 who need help looking after themselves.
- For people who are aged 3 or over and have severe difficulty walking, or aged 5 or over and need help getting around .
DLA is paid at different rates, depending on the amount of help needed.
Attendance Allowance (AA) is:
- For people over 65 who need help looking after looking after themselves
There are two rates of AA: Low Rate for people who have needs during the day OR night and High Rate for people who have needs during BOTH day and night.
Carers Allowance (CA) is:
- A taxable benefit for carers aged 16 or over who are looking after someone for 35 hours or more a week (this does not need to be everyday).
- Carers Allowance is not affected by the savings you may have.
You can make a referral yourself by contacting us. We can also receive referrals from statutory and voluntary agencies on your behalf.
Download Benefits Advice Leaflet