Welfare Rights (Mental Health) has produced a series of factsheets and leaflets that give an outline of the main benefits that affect people in mental distress and their carers.

Benefits for Carers

A guide that provides information on benefits that are available if you are caring for a friend or relative whose illness or disability means they need extra help. It is designed to explain the benefits that are available to you as the carer, rather than the person you are caring for.

Disability Living Allowance

This guide gives information on Disability Living Allowance and how to go about claiming the benefit. There are two information booklets which give information on the rules for people with mental health problems and how to complete the claims form.

Employment & Support Allowance

A guide looking at this benefit and its relevance to mental health.

Going into Hospital

A guide on how hospitalisation may effect benefits.

Guide to Payments for Work Done as a Service User

This guide explains the effects that any payments may have on benefits you are receiving, and responsibilities people may have to inform the Department for Work and Pensions and other agencies of any payments they have received.

Incapacity Benefit

A guide to help with the questionnaire, attend a medical or in an appeal.

Moving into Work

A guide for people with a disability who are considering starting back into work and the complex benefit issues that may arise.

Permitted Work and Voluntary Work

A guide for anyone thinking about starting permitted or voluntary work. It details the rules governing this work and how to avoid putting your benefits at work.