Lancashire Libraries's List: Find: Benefits

Lancashire County Council's Welfare Rights Service exists to help you, your family, and your friends, with claims for the whole range of social security and local authority benefits and tax credits. Whether you are unemployed, sick or disabled, a pensioner, a carer, on low wages, or finding it difficult to manage, our aim is to ensure that you get your full entitlement to benefit. Includes information on office locations within Lancashire. 

This site provides a guide to sources of advice on citizen's rights issues published by the Citizen's Advice Bureau.

The Advice Services Alliance is the umbrella body for independent advice services in the UK. This site will help you find information about claiming benefits, appealing against a decision, managing your benefits and benefit fraud

If you need a review of your or a family member's eligibility for benefits you can complete this assessment tool anonymously online.

Is the website of the Elizabeth Finn Care charity (nr.515297). Turn2us helps people access money that they are entitled to or that is available to them – through welfare benefits, grants and other financial help. 

Contact details for the Benefit Enquiry Line which provides advice and information for disabled people and carers on the range of benefits available. 

The Government Gateway is the website you use to register for online government services (e.g. for services for personal use such as (Council Tax, Self Assessment Online, Carers Allowance and Tax Credits Online) . It is an important part of the government's strategy of delivering 'joined up' government. Once you are registered as a Government Gateway User, you will be able to submit forms to government departments for the services for which you have enrolled, enrol for additional services as they become available, assign an Agent (such as your accountant or payroll bureau) to act on your behalf for any of the services you have enrolled for. Note: if you have already registered with UK Centres Online, you can use this login for government services and do not need to register again.

Get Connected is a free advice and support site where you can obtain confidential advice and remain anonymous (no one will be able to trace your visit). There is also a telephone helpline.

Working Families is an organisation formed by the amalgamation of Parents at Work and New Ways to Work. Their web site provides information, advice and fact sheets for families and employers on flexible working, fathers' rights, childcare, rights at work etc 

The StartHere information service is a self-help facility that links you to a wide range of services that can help when you have a problem. It covers a broad range of issues — including health, caring, families, education, employment, benefits, wellbeing

Lancashire Young Carers website has been set up to help and support young carers across the county.A young carer is a person under 18 years of age, who is significantly affected by caring for a person with a long-term illness or disability - including mental health issues and substance misuse. The site includes details of available support, contact details etc 

In this section of the Gov.uk site you will find information on eligibility, rates and claiming for those with a disability. If you are a carer you will find details of benefits available to you.

A new benefit will be introduced in the UK in 2013. Universal Credit will replace a number of benefits including child tax credit, housing benefit, income support and working tax credit. You can find the latest information on the site of the Department of Work and Pensions.