Welfare Rights

As part of Leicestershire County Council's social care programme, the welfare rights service provides advice and information on benefit and tax credit entitlements. People will often be unaware of their entitlement, unsure of how to make claims or deal with difficulties that may arise once claims have been made.

Advice

If you have a complex problem and are receiving services such as Home Care, Residential Care, Day Care, Adaptations etc, or have an allocated worker from the County Council Adult or Children’s Social Care Services, the County Council Welfare Rights Advisors can continue to assist you. You should ask your allocated worker or key worker about this.

If you are not receiving services, but need some welfare rights advice then the organisations listed in this document, Welfare Rights Advice can help.

Information

is provided via a series of publications, on general and specific topics.

See the Social Care Services Financial Benefits and Welfare Rights sites page for useful links to other websites.

See Entitlements for Older People for more information about any entitlements that an older person may be eligible to claim.

Visit Consumer Debt Advice for more information about dealing with debt and other financial difficulties.

Also see Winter Fuel Payments information from the Pension Service.

Easy to use Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit calculation tool - Helps to calculate whether you can claim Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Benefit, and gives an estimate of how much you may be entitled to. You will need details of your income, savings, rent and Council Tax.

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