Disability Benefits

There are a number of benefit calculators to help you find out what you are entitled too:

Turn2Us - On-line form to estimate your benefits entitlement. It includes most major benefits. No registration is required.

Citizens Advice - Independent and anonymous benefit calculator. Includes information for people over 60 years and those in Northern Ireland

HMRC - The Government website provides a Tax Credits calculator. You cannot apply for Tax Credits on-line

Moneysavingexpert.com - Benefits Checklist tool. Also provides information on individual benefits

Benefits and Work is a subscription site that provides detailed guides to individual benefits including the Disability Living Allowance and the Employment and Support Allowance.

A one year subscrption of £19.45 gives unlimited access to all guides and the on-line forum.

There are some free resources if you register for their free newsletter. This includes a free on-line questionaire to assess yourself using the new ESA work capability assessment.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

Disability Living Allowance

There are a number of guides to help with applying for the Disability Living Allowance (DLA):

• Cerebra - have a good overview of DLA for children with tips on how to apply. You can download or request a paper copy of their step by step Guide to DLA.

• Contact a Family - Free download "A guide to claiming Disability Living Allowance for children". They also publish "Disability Living Allowance – claiming the higher rate mobility component for children with learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders"

• Disability Rights - Publish a guide to DLA and Attendance allowance that can be purchased from the RADAR shop (this is a different publication from the Disability Rights Handbook)

Please note: Disability Living Allowance is due to be replaced by Personal Independence Payments (PIP's). Disability Rights have produced a factsheet outlining the changes.

Disability is a national charity working to relieve poverty and improve living standards of disabled people. It was formed in January 2012 from three charities: Disability Alliance, RADAR and the National Centre for Independent Living.

It provides up-to-date information on all disability benefits for disabled people, their families, carers and professionals.

Every year it produces an update to it's Disability Rights Handbook containing everything you need to know about Government benefits and other related services for the disabled.

This and other useful publications can be purchased from the RADAR shop.

Disability Rights have recently published the proposed Benefit rates from April 2012 from the Department of Work and Pensions. Check out the details here.

www.disabilityalliance.org

Working Families have produced a booklet " From Child to Adult: A Guide to Disability, Transition and Family Finance".

It looks at the benefit entitlements for families and carers and the young person during the period of transition to adult services.

There is also a useful "Better Off Calculator" for you to work out the best options for your individual situation.

www.workingfamilies.org.uk

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