Your benefit rights – what you can do to defend your entitlements
The best-known advice agencies mainly tell people how to comply with
the rules. Most of them don’t give us the information we need to press for our rights and any concessions made. The information here comes from sharing our experiences with other grassroots groups, claimants, anti-poverty campaigners, single mums, tenants’ rights and disability campaigners, and lawyers
bringing legal challenges.
**NEW: ESA to Universal Credit — things to know and helpful tips here
- Bedroom tax
- Benefit appeals held remotely
- Challenging benefit sanctions
- Check your entitlements
- Cold weather payments
- Coronavirus — temporary benefit changes (sick pay, appointments, interviews)
- Cost of living payments can’t be taken for care charges
- Council Tax
- Debt advice
- Disability Living Allowance — under 16s or over 65
- Employment and Support Allowance
- Energy bills — cash help for customers who are struggling to pay
- ESA to UC — things to know and helpful tips
- Freedom Pass
- Immigrant disabled people — rights to support
- Long COVID support
- Moving home — ESA to Universal Credit
- PIP Personal Independence Payments
- Exemption from face-to-face exam — PIP
- PIP law change — back payments for social support needs
- Private renters
- Telephone interviews to assess your benefit entitlement
- Universal Credit self-help info and tips
- Water bills help
- Work capability and PIP interviews. Leaflets on exemption from face-to-face interview, to give to your GP or other professional, or you can use it yourself:
- Exemption from face-to-face exam — work capability assessment ESA and Universal Credit For Work Capability Assessment issues, the CHDA contact email has changed to: Customer-relations@CHDA.DWP.GOV.UK