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 help 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.
** We've just added the Cost of living payments 2023 info.
See our COVID changes page for info on benefit assessments by telephone, benefit appeals held remotely, and more.
- 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 2022
- Cost of living payments 2023
- 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
- Freedom Pass
- Immigrant disabled people -- rights to support
- Long COVID support
- Moving home -- ESA to Universal Credit
- PIP Personal Independence Payments
- Private renters
- Telephone interviews to assess your benefit entitlement
- Universal Credit self-help info and tips
- Water bills help
Below are leaflets on exemption from face-to-face interview, to give to your GP or other professional, or you can use it yourself: