Healthier and Wealthier can support and guide you on the following services:
- Benefits, tax credits and Universal credits:
- Challenging decisions when benefits are stopped or changed
- Understanding entitlements and making applications
- Medical evidence for benefits/housing
- Seeing what useful evidence patient already has
- Identifying other, often better, sources of good evidence
- Avoiding wasting patients money if new evidence isn't needed
- DS1500 entitlement and usage
- Debt, budgeting and maximising income
- Consumer issues including energy costs and fuel poverty
- Work, employment rights and unemployment
- Self-employment issues including sickness or benefits
- Housing, poor living conditions, tenancy and landlords
- Pregnancy and parental rights and responsibilities
- Relationships, separations, family and legal matters
- Hardships, accessing foodbanks and finding help in emergencies
- Caring or disability rights and benefits
- Immigration rights and responsibilities
- Legal representation and regulated financial/pension matters
For more information visit the citizens advice website.