Where to get benefits advice

  Getting Benefits Advice

Please note that Transitions is providing this as information. We can’t take responsibility for advice provided by other agencies. Thanks.

If you need impartial advice on claiming benefits or on going back to work and calculating if you will be better off or can retain some benefits, you can go to:

The Citizens’ Advice Bureau in your Borough  http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/getadvice.htm

A Law Centre in your borough

http://www.lawcentres.org.uk/i-am-looking-for-advice

Your Jobcentre

https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus

A voluntary sector advice service in your borough

Ask at your local Council office or library or look on the internet for contact information

One example is Migrants Resource Centre

http://www.migrantsresourcecentre.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=64

A Refugee Community Organisation 

The Refugee Council may be able to put you in touch.

A Local Government advice centre.

Ask at your local Council office or library or look on the internet for contact information

Useful online benefits calculators

https://www.gov.uk/benefits-adviser

http://www.citizensadvice.co.uk/getadvice/benefit-calculator/

http://www.turn2us.org.uk/benefits_search.aspx?gclid=CJKftM_0-7QCFfHJtAodVzAAuw