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Benefits, work, finance

Advice Guide
Adviceguide is an online service from Citizens Advice Bureaux, providing information on a wide range of topics, including benefits, housing, employment and debt, consumer and legal issues. The website is published in English and Welsh, and covers the law in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Frequently asked questions in each topic section are also available in Chinese, Bengali, Gujerati, Punjabi, and Urdu.
www.adviceguide.org.uk

Benefits and work UK
A mostly subscription-only site;set up by a former welfare rights officer. It gives information about your legal rights, disability living allowance, incapacity benefit and other benefit claims. Updates on benefits are available to members.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

Citizens Advice Bureaux
Citizens Advice Bureaux provide free, confidential and independent advice from more than 3,000 locations throughout the UK, helping people to resolve debt, benefits, housing, legal and other problems. Advice is available face-to-face and by telephone. Most bureaux offer home visits and some also provide an email service. Click on 'Find your local CAB' to find your nearest bureau.
www.citizensadvice.org.uk

Department of Work & Pensions
Government site that contains information about benefits. Click on 'Services and benefits' for an online A–Z of benefits. Click on 'Disabled people and carers' for information about benefits and services for people who are sick or have a disability.
www.dwp.gov.uk

Elizabeth Finn Care
A national charity that helps people in need whose former careers have been interrupted or ended through physical or mental problems. Provides financial information, grants and support. For more information, click on 'Getting help from EFC' on the home page.
www.elizabethfinncare.org.uk

Enable Together
Information about direct payments on a site pioneered by Enable Payroll, an employment advisory support and payroll service for service-users. It contains advice about direct payments and funding from the Independent Living Fund for people to employ their own personal assistants or carers.
www.enabletogether.co.uk

Fresh Finance
A commerical insurance, pension and mortgage company that provides specialist advice and packages for survivors of mental health and medical conditions who might face rejection under other lenders' criteria.
www.freshfinance.net

Independent Review Service
The Social Fund scheme provides grants and interest-free loans to help people on a low income with costs that are difficult to meet from regular income: people leaving institutional care, or who need help to stay in their own home, may be able to get a community care grant from the Social Fund. The Independent Review Service is an independent statutory body based in Birmingham that carries out reviews of discretionary Social Fund decisions. You can download publications from the website.
www.irs-review.org.uk

Matthew Trust
A charity providing last-stop support and care to people anywhere in the UK who have a mental health problem of any kind; also supports victims of aggression and domestic violence. Grants are only given when all other avenues of funding are exhausted. Applications for support must be submitted by a healthcare or social worker on behalf of the person in need. Grants are made for a specific purpose and costed need.
www.matthewtrust.org

Yes2Work
A not-for-profit organisation delivering a job-broking service within the New Deal for Disabled People Scheme in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Norfolk, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Ayrshire, Dumfries, Lanarkshire, Grampian and Tayside. It also helps clients with CV preparation and benefits advice.
www.yes2work.org.uk