Benefits
The main ones are Personal Independence Payments (PIP), which replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), if you feel that you can no longer work.
It can be complicated to apply for these benefits, call the office up to date guides that can be emailed to you.
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Employment and Support Allowance
This allowance is replacing Incapacity Benefit, but is a complex benefit. Please read the “Understanding ESA” leaflet before proceeding with your claim.
Personal Independence Payments
This benefit has now replaced Disabled Living Allowance, and people who were on indefinite awards of DLA are still being transferred across to PIP. New Applications can take months to process, with appeals even longer.
Disability Living Allowance – children up to 16 only
DLA is still in force for children up to 16 and those claimants that have not been transferred onto PIP.
These guides are provided by Benefits and Work Ltd, an independent company who have set out to guide us through the ever increasing maze of benefits, appeals, mandatory reconsiderations and sanctions.
We highly recommend that you join them (£19.99 per year) to access these guides (which are regularly updated) and much more. Visit benefitsandwork.co.uk to find out more.
You can find a wide range of factsheets on the Disability Rights UK website, on all kinds of topics, including the Benefits Cap, prescription charges and lots more.