Link to Benefit Rates

This section is a guide to the range of benefits you may be able to claim if you are disabled or ill. It also outlines benefits to which all can apply. For information on The Social Fund see heading in Main Index.

If you want more advice about your right to claim benefit :

Contact your local Social Security office (look for the Benefits Agency display advert
in the business section of the phone book)

Look in the Benefits Agency Website: http://www.dss.gov.uk/ba
Note! : From April 2002 the above department became the Department for Work and Pensions and the new website is at http://www.dwp.gov.uk
Their enquiry telephone numbers are on webpage http://www.dwp.gov.uk/contact/helplines.htm

Leaflet SD1 Sick or Disabled a guide to benefits and tax credits for people of all ages
 with a physical or mental illness or disability - and the people who look after them.
The Benefits Enquiry Line: Tel: 0800 88 22 00