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FINANCIAL HELP INDEX 'BENEFITS' |
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This section is a guide to the range of benefits you may be able to claim if you are disabled or ill. It also outlines benefits to which all can apply. For information on The Social Fund see heading in Main Index.
If you want more advice about your right to claim benefit :
Contact your local Social Security office
(look for the Benefits
Agency display advert
in the business section of the phone book)
Look in the Benefits
Agency Website: http://www.dss.gov.uk/ba
Note! : From April 2002 the above department became the
Department for Work and Pensions and the new website
is at http://www.dwp.gov.uk
Their enquiry telephone numbers are on webpage http://www.dwp.gov.uk/contact/helplines.htm
Leaflet SD1
Sick or Disabled a guide
to benefits and tax credits for people of all ages
with a physical or mental illness or disability - and the people
who look after them.
The Benefits Enquiry Line:
Tel: 0800 88 22 00
0800 24 33 55
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- Financial help 1 - |
Disability Living Allowance |
| Disability Working Allowance |
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- Financial help 2 - |
Attendance Allowance |
| Invalid Care Allowance |
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| Severe Disablement Allowance |
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- Financial help 3 - |
Statutory Sick Pay |
| Vaccine Damage Payments |
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- Financial help 4 - |
Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit |
| Pneumoconiosis,
byssinosis and |
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| Workmen’s Compensation Supplement |
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| Industrial Injuries Compensation |
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| Recovery of Benefits from Compensation |
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- Financial help 5 - |
Injured at war or in the armed forces |
| Injured by crime |
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- Financial help 6 - |
Disabled Person’s Tax Credit |
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- Financial help 7 - |
Incapacity Benefit |
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- Financial help 8 - |
Income Support |
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- Financial help 9 - |
Housing Benefit |
| Council Tax Benefit |
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| Jobseeker’s Allowance |
| Other financial help |
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