Welfare Rights resources links
- Online welfare benefit and tax credit guides/information
- Benefits information/advice/campaigning organisations
- General advice/information/campaigning organisations
- Websites useful to advisers
- Central Government departments
Online welfare benefit and tax credit guides/information
Citizens Advice online guide. Has a large section on benefits.
www.adviceguide.org.uk
Department for Work and Pensions. Useful A-Z guide to benefits.
www.dwp.gov.uk
The Inland Revenue’s guide to tax credits. Calculate and submit claims online.
http://www.taxcredits.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/HomeIR.aspx
Community Legal Advice. Find an adviser online or get advice direct over the telephone.
www.communitylegaladvice.org.uk
Advice Services Alliance information including benefits.
www.advicenow.org.uk
Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
– provides detailed information on tax and tax credits for people on low incomes, including pensioners, students and low income workers.
www.litrg.org.uk
Benefits information/advice/campaigning organisations
Every Disabled Child Matters
www.edcm.org.uk
Disability Information and Advice Line services. Information on disability benefits and services.
www.dialuk.info
Information on disability benefits and services.
www.disabilityalliance.org
Information on benefits and other services for older people. Links to separate websites for Wales, Scotland and NI.
www.ace.org.uk/AgeConcern/National_Age_Concerns.asp
Information on benefits and services for lone parents.
www.gingerbread.org.uk
General advice/information/campaigning organisations
Information on debt issues.
www.nationaldebtline.co.uk
Information on housing issues. Links to separate websites for Wales, Scotland and NI.
http://england.shelter.org.uk
Websites useful to advisers
Welfare rights website for advice workers.
www.rightsnet.org.uk
Social Security and Child Support Commissioners' website; includes information about appealing against tribunal decisions.
www.osscsc.gov.uk
Software for benefits advice.
www.lissongrovebenefits.co.uk
Childrens Legal Centre Migrant Childresn Project
www.childrenslegalcentre.com/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=90033
Liberty's human rights advice service for the voluntary sector
www.yourrights.org.uk/vas/
Advice and consultancy for advice agencies and solicitors' practices challenging decisions by public authorities.
www.publiclawproject.org.uk
Association of Charity Officers; includes searchable directory of member "benevolent" charities, and a telephone helpline to link individuals in need with the most appropriate charity.
www.aco.uk.net/index.asp?contentid=120&menuid=44
Turn2us; includes searchable directory of organisations offering financial help, with eligibility criteria. Also includes a benefits calculator.
www.turn2us.org.uk
Family Rights Group offers specialist information about families' legal rights and what they can expect of the social care system.
www.frg.org.uk
Consumer Focus, the consumer champion for energy users, offers a searchable knowledge base of energy issues including regulatory requirements, tips on how to resolve complaints, and contact details for companies.
http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/en/content/cms/Energy_Help___Advice/Your_energy_question/Your_energy_question.aspx
Devon County Council website
www.devon.gov.uk
Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for the abolition of poverty among children and young people in the UK and for the improvement of the lives of low-income families.
www.cpag.org.uk
DWP Decision Makers Guide
www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/dwp/dmg
The Inland Revenue's guidance manual on Tax Credits
www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/ntcmanual
The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisors
www.nawra.org.uk
Central Government departments
Department for Work and Pensions
www.dwp.gov.uk
Pension Service
www.thepensionservice.gov.uk
Job Centre Plus
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/cms.asp?Page=/Home
Department for Work and Pensions press releases
www.dwp.gov.uk/mediacentre/index.asp
HM Treasury
www.hm-treasury.gov.uk
HM Revenue and Customs
www.hmrc.gov.uk
Home Office
www.homeoffice.gov.uk
UK Border Agency asylum support pages
www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylum/support/
Department of Health
www.doh.gov.uk
Department for Education and Skills
www.dfes.gov.uk
Children and Young People's Unit
www.allchildrennis.gov.uk
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
www.odpm.gov.uk
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister press releases
www.odpm.gov.uk/pns/newslist.cgi
Cabinet Office
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk
10 Downing street
www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
Number 10 Strategy Unit
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/strategy-unit
Connexions
www.direct.gov.uk/en/YoungPeople/index.htm