Check if you're eligible for PIP - Citizens Advice
Check the main eligibility rules. To get PIP you must find it hard to do everyday tasks or get around because of a physical or mental condition. You must have found these things hard for 3 months and expect them to continue to be hard for another 9 months. You must be living in England or Wales when you apply - unless you or a close family ...
Getting on the waiting list for a council home - Citizens Advice
If your application is accepted, you’ll go on to a waiting list of people who need a council home. Your council will then prioritise applications based on who needs a home most urgently. The council’s allocations scheme will give details of who gets priority for homes in the area. Even if you get on the waiting list there’s no guarantee ...
How to claim PIP - Citizens Advice
There are 3 stages to claiming PIP: Contact the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and fill in the PIP1 form - they can do this for you over the phone. Fill in the ‘How your disability affects you’ form - you can choose to get a paper form by post or get an email with a link to an online form. Go to a medical assessment.
How much PIP you can get and for how long - Citizens Advice
This is called an ‘indefinite award’. If you have an indefinite award the DWP will usually review it every 10 years. If you don’t get an indefinite award, you’ll get PIP for a fixed amount of time – your decision letter will tell you for how long. If you’re terminally ill the award will be for 3 years. If you're awarded PIP for a ...
Extra money and help PIP entitles you to - Citizens Advice
If you get PIP you may be entitled to extra money on top of your existing benefits, a reduction in your council tax or road tax bills and discounts on travel. You’ll need your PIP award letter before you can apply for this extra help. This award letter is sometimes called a PIP award notice. It’s sent to you when the DWP has made a decision ...
Check if you can get sick pay - Citizens Advice
your employer's name and contact details. your payroll number. details of when you were off sick. what your employer said when you asked for SSP and the SSP1 form. HMRC Statutory Payment Dispute Team. Telephone: 0300 322 9422. Textphone: 0300 200 3212. Monday to Thursday, 8.30am to 5pm.
How much ESA you can get - Citizens Advice
1. Check the basic amount you can get. When you first claim, your basic amount is: £142.25 each week if you live with a partner. £90.50 each week if you don’t live with a partner and you’re aged 25 or over. £71.70 each week if you don’t live with a partner and you’re aged under 25.
Personal Independence Payment - Citizens Advice
Jun 28, 2018 · PIP resources. Letter to confirm the DWP has given you more time to send your PIP claim form. Letter to send evidence after your PIP claim form. Information on eligibility for claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP), how to fill in …
Getting Universal Credit if you’re sick or disabled
Telephone: 0800 328 5644. Telephone (Welsh language): 0800 328 1744. Textphone: 0800 328 1344. Relay UK - if you can't hear or speak on the phone, you can type what you want to say: 18001 then 0800 328 5644. You can use Relay UK with an app or a textphone. There’s no extra charge to use it.
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