Darlington Welfare Rights

Welfare Rights is about ensuring that people receive the benefits they are entitled to under law.  Offering free confidential and independent information, advice, support and representation on Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits.

How Welfare Rights Can Help You

  • Check to make sure you are getting all the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits you are entitled to under the law.
  • Advise and support you with how to claim Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits you may be entitled to.
  • Help you sort out any changes to your benefits.
  • Help you to challenge a decision that does not seem to be right.
  • Reprsent you at an appeal tribunal.
  • Help you with a letter of calculation to see how changes in your circumstances may affect your benefits.

Some of the benefits we can help with include:

  • Attendance Allowance
  • Disability Living Allowance
  • Housing and Council Tax Benefit
  • Incapacity Benefit
  • Income Support
  • Job Seekers Allowance
  • Pension Credit
  • Social Fund
  • Tax Credits

Some of the services we provide:

  • Appointments
  • Home Visits
  • Translation Service

What we will need to know:

To help us give you the right advice we may need to ask you about:

  • Your family circumstances
  • How much money you have coming in each week
  • How much you have saved
  • Any disablities you and your family have.

How to Contact Us:

    • Telephone 01325 388868 - Monday to Friday 8.30 am to 5.00 p.m.
    • Write to:Darlington Welfare Rights, 13 Horsemarket, Darlington DL1 5PW

Links

Check possible benefit entitlement to:

Pension Credit [external link]
Tax Credits [external link]

Benefits Advisor [external link] on DirectGov website [external link]