Benefits Advice

Citizens Advice North East Derbyshire can advise you if you are unsure about your entitlement to benefits.

We can give practical help by:

• helping you to work out your entitlement to benefits
• helping you fill in the appropriate forms
• writing review and appeal letters
• providing benefit checks and better off calculations

If appropriate, we may be available to represent at HM Courts & Tribunals Service hearings. We can take your case to the Upper Tier Tribunal if appropriate.

Benefits Advice from Citizens Advice

Get information 24 hours a day from the national Citizens Advice website

Resources

• If you want to check your benefits entitlement, you can use the Turn2Us Benefit Calculator
• Claim Forms are available from the DWP website
• Current Benefits Rates are also available from Rightsnet
• Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Appeals Guide
• How to deal with a benefit fraud interview

Information and Help for Specific Groups

Various organisations have more specific information for different groups of people including:

• Disabled people
• Working parents and carers
• Blind people
• Deaf people
• People with ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease
• People with M.E.
• People with mental health issues
• People who have had a stroke
• People with athritis

Tax Credits

• Tax Credits information from "which?"
• Tax Credits Overpayment information from "which?"

General Fact Sheets

• Disability Rights UK
• Advice Now