Welfare Benefits

Struggling with your benefit issues? Refused benefits that you think you are entitled to?

Blackpool Citizens Advice Bureau has a Community Legal Service specialist help quality mark in
Welfare Benefits. Our specialist team advises clients on their entitlement to benefits, helps them to make claims and assists with appeals where a wrong decision may have been made.

In 2004-5 our Welfare Benefits Unit gains for clients averaged £30,000 per month. If you don't know what you may be entitled to, if you have been wrongly refused or if you simply don't understand the benefits you are on, we can help.

• Income Support
• Job Seekers Allowance
• Housing Benefit, Local Housing Allowance, Council Tax Benefit
• Overpayments and appeals
• Tax Credits
• Incapacity Benefits & Disability Living Allowance

These are amongst the many entitlements you may have to help you in your everyday life. We may be able to help you get them.

For a referral to this specialist service, simply access our general advice service by any of the means indicated here

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