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Financial Help
Many professions and
industries have benevolent associations which give grants to disabled
people, pensioners and people facing a crisis. To qualify you need to
work or have once worked, in the particular industry or belong to the
family of such a worker.
Ex-members of the armed forces, their families and
dependants may also be able to get financial help from forces benevolent
societies.
Social Security offices
are staffed and equipped to make sure disabled people can
get information in the form they need it, including blind people, deaf
people and foreign language speakers.
Disability Benefits Helpline Tel: 0345 123456
Benefits Enquiry Line 0800 88 22 00 Textphone: 0800 243355. Advice and information for people with disabilities and their carers about social security benefits and how to claim them. The person you speak to will not have your personal records but will be able to give you general advice.
Dial (Disability Information Advice Line) is run mostly by people who themselves are disabled. See phone book for your local DIAL or call DIAL UK on (01302) 310123 or see section in Dial in Main Index
Citizens Advice Bureaux
are the largest independent provider of general advice
in England and Wales. They exist to give confidential , impartial free
advice to all and to present policy makers with issues of concern. Some
have Specialist debt and disability advisers See local phone book).
Welfare Rights Officers are employed
by many local authorities. Some may also have a Disability Rights Centre.
Voluntary organisations connected with particular disabilities often provide advice and publications to help make sure you get your full entitlement.
Disablement Income Group (DIG) provides advice, advocacy, fieldwork, information, publications, research and training to improve the financial welfare of disabled people. Tel: 0207 263 3981
The Disability Alliance
has a rights and
advice line. Tel/Textphone: (0207) 247 8763 (between 2pm and 4pm on Mondays
and Wednesdays.
Publications:
After Age 16 What Next? Service and benefits for young disabled people by Alison Cowen, Family Fund
A-Z of Welfare Benefits MIND Publications, £2.50 plus 25p postage and packing
Directory of Social Change, 24, Stephenson Way, London NW1 2DP.
Tel: 0207 209 4949, publishes guides to possible sources of grants
Disability Rights Handbook published annually by the Disability Alliance,
National Welfare Benefits Handbook published by Child Poverty Action Group
What Tax-the Council Tax explained from RADAR
For full addresses of organisations see ADDRESSES section
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