Benefits

Summary

Digital support tools that write the document that sets out your case for you Understand your options if you have an overpayment - including how to ask them to allow you to repay it in smaller amounts, or not to repay it at all if you do not have money for basics Getting free one-to-one advice about benefits is hard. All advice services are extremely busy. We are here to help everyone who cannot get in at an advice service and cannot afford to pay for legal help. We give you the knowledge, confidence, and skills you need to deal with the issue yourself, or with the help of friends or family. If you need more help than you can get from our advice guides and self-help tools, we explain how to try to find advice.

Key information

• Information hub Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Apply for PIP or get support to challenge unfair decisions.  Information hub Universal Credit (UC) Help with the work capability assessment and appeals, to what to do about sanctions and overpayments.  Information hub Disability Living Allowance Get DLA for your child, and help to challenge unfair decisions successfully.  Information hub Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Support with the work capability assessment and help to challenge an unfair decision effectively  Information Living with a partner and benefits Find out what counts as living together, and the impact of someone moving in, or out.  Chosen for you Social fund payments How to get help with urgent expenses, including grants and loans for specific life incidents.  Chosen for you Other types of benefits Learn what benefits there are are for people in diffierent situations and what steps to take if theings go wrong.  Chosen for you Other benefit appeals Learn what to do if you think a decision about other benefits is wrong. For PIP, Universal Credit, DLA and ESA appeals see pages above.  Chosen for you What benefits can I get? Use the benefits calculator from Turn2us (another charity) to check what benefits you might be entitled to. Every year milions of people miss out on help they could have claimed.  Chosen for you Benefit fraud Explains what fraud is, the rules the DWP follow when someone is suspected of benefit fraud, and what to do if you are accused. 
• Digital support tools that write the document that sets out your case for you
• Personal Independence Payment MR letter tool Ask for a PIP mandatory reconsideration Don’t put up with an unfair decision. Challenge it effectively using our clever tool. Disability Living Allowance MR tool Ask for a DLA mandatory reconsideration Our tool makes it easy to challenge an unfair decision about your child’s DLA effectively Work Capability Assessment MR tool Ask for an ESA or UC mandatory reconsiderationChallenge an unfair decision about whether you are well enough to work. Work Capability Assessment tribunal submission tool Write a tribunal submission about your ESA or UCExplain to the appeal panel why the decision from your work capability assessment was wrong.
• Universal Credit sanction tool Ask for an anytime revision of your sanctionThis free tool makes it easy to challenge a Universal Credit (UC) sanction no matter when you got it. Almost all sanctions can be overturned.
• Understand your options if you have an overpayment - including how to ask them to allow you to repay it in smaller amounts, or not to repay it at all if you do not have money for basics
• Getting free one-to-one advice about benefits is hard. All advice services are extremely busy. We are here to help everyone who cannot get in at an advice service and cannot afford to pay for legal help.
• We give you the knowledge, confidence, and skills you need to deal with the issue yourself, or with the help of friends or family. If you need more help than you can get from our advice guides and self-help tools, we explain how to try to find advice.

Practical guidance

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