The Citizens Advice website contains up to date information on all areas of Welfare Benefits. You can access it here.

The official Government website has a useful overview of winter fuel payments here

Blackpool Council has information here
 

A list of printable benefit factsheets can be found here

Age UK has a dedicated section on their website covering pensions, including a pension calculator and advice on tracing old pensions. See here

Entitledto have a free online calculator that you can use to check your entitlement to a range of benefits and tax credits.

You can access the calculator here

This guide is for parents and carers who think the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have made the wrong decision about their child’s claim for Disability Living Allowance (DLA). We want to help you get what you are entitled to. This guide will help you work out if you should challenge the decision, as well as show you how to do it and win.

• If you are 16-65 and have mobility and care needs you could be entitled to personal independence payments. See here 
• If you are under 16 and have mobility and care needs you could be entitled to disability living allowance.
• See here
• If you are over 65 and have care needs, you may be entitled to Attendance Allowance. See here
• If you are a carer, or if you have a carer, then Carers Allowance may be payable. See here

Blackpool Council has information on what to do if you are having problems paying your council tax bill here

Fylde Council has information on what to do if you are having problems paying your council tax bill here

Wyre Council has information on what to do if you are having problems paying your council tax bill here

Age UK have their own online benefit checker

Housing Benefit is available to people on a low income who are renting their homes to help them to afford to pay the rent. If you have made applied for Universal Credit and are liable to pay Council Tax at the property you live in, you will also need to apply for Council Tax Reduction. To apply for Housing Benefit you must: Normally live at the property you are applying for Be liable to pay rent for the property Either be entitled to: Income Support Jobseeker's Allowance (Income based) Employment and Support Allowance (Income related) or have a low income. People with over £16,000 in savings will not normally qualify for any benefit. You cannot claim for a property let on a lease of more than 21 years except for shared or co-ownership schemes, or where you are the owner-occupier, or if you are a tenant in a property owned by the Crown.

To apply for Housing Benefit in the Blackpool area click here 




 

• There are a range of benefits available for sick and/or disabled people, including ESA (Employment & Support Allowance) and PIP (Personal Independence Payment). For full details see the following section of the Citizens Advice website:

• There are a range of benefits available for those with a low income, including Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support, Income Support and Working Tax Credits. Further details

Citizens Advice has a full guide on their website here (covering the main benefits available for families and children)

• Citizens Advice has further information on challenging these types of decisions. For benefits decisions, see here
• For tax credits decisions, see here

 
When returning any DWP form that has a deadline that can impact on the benefit, e.g. ESA 50/ PIP forms, and you are near a deadline it's worth paying the extra postage as a 2^nd class prepaid envelope can take up to 9 days to be received.