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Information Factsheets
Listed below are factsheets produced by Welfare Rights (Mental Health) which are designed to give you an outline of the main benefits. The leaflets are all in pdf format and require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Benefits and Mental Health
This leaflet gives information about benefits you may be able to claim and where you can go to get help and advice.
Benefits and Hospitalisation
A guide on how hospitalisation may effect benefits.
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 - A Guide on the rules
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.
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 Benefits
A factsheet which explains Incapacity Benefit, who can claim, conditions of entitlement, the personal capability assessment and how to claim.
Permitted Work and Voluntary Work
A factsheet to explain the rules to permitted work and voluntary work without puting benefits at risk.
Personal Capability Test
A factsheet in 2 parts to explain the questionnaire and medical test to be assessed as being 'incapable of work'.
The Social Fund
This guide provides information on the Discretionary Social Fund which provides grants and loans for items that are difficult to pay for from weekly benefit payments, or because of a crisis where someone is unable to meet their immediate short term needs.