Benefits and Allowances Useful Links
Also see: Citizen's Advice | Money
- Age Concern (Leicestershire and Rutland) Advice - Provides practical help, advice and services for older people including benefits and pension information.
- BBC: Over 50's Practical Advice - Information about benefits, housing, pensions, wills, working in retirement and going into care for the over 50's.
- Child Poverty Action Group - Charitable organisation that campaigns to eradicate poverty.
- Child Rights Information Network - The CRIN is a global information network aiming to support and promote the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- Citizen's Advice Bureau - Citizens advice.
- DirectGov - Community Legal Advice - Free, confidential and independent legal advice for residents of England and Wales
- Directgov - Carer’s Allowance - Carer Allowance information.
- Directgov - Money, Tax and Benefits - Information from the Government about money, tax and benefits.
- Directgov Benefit Enquiry Line - provides advice for disabled people and their carers on range of benefits
- Disability Alliance - Disability Alliance (social security benefits for disabled people).
- Entitled To - Entitled To provides free calculators to help work out your entitlement to benefits and tax credits.
- Focus on Money - Information on money management
- Pensionage - Provides background material for everyone to do with pensions and benefits.
- Pension Service - Provides information on state and private pensions.
- Rights Net - A resource for welfare benefit and tax credit advisors.
- turn2us - A new charity offering information available about benefits and charitable organisations in the UK.
- Tax Credits - Help with claiming Tax Credits for disabled people, people with children and people of working age.
- Unbiased - Independent Financial Advisors Promotion provides a confidential search for details of advisors.
Page Last Updated: 19 July 2011







