For benefits advice or to arrange an appointment, please contact DAG on 01947 511118, or by email info@whitbydag.org.uk
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Our Benefits Worker, Phillipa Valentine can give confidential benefit advice over the telephone or face to face at our Whitby office. Phillipa may also be able to make home visits in Whitby and District.
Phillipa can help to complete benefits claim forms and give support to prepare for appeals. We can also help to complete Blue Badge forms.
DAG does not charge for this service, but donations are welcome.
This is a non-means tested benefit for people of state pension age who have personal care needs.
There are two rates of benefit, one for day time care needs and one for both day and night.
Carers Allowance is a benefit for people who regularly spend at least 35 hours per week caring for a person who receives Personal Independence Payment daily living component, or Disability Living Allowance care component (middle or higher rate), or Attendance Allowance. The weekly rate is £62.70.
You may be able to claim Carers Allowance if:
(Disability Living Allowance (DLA) has been replaced by Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for adults aged under 65 years. If you are aged under 65 years and are already on DLA, you will be reassessed for PIP. You will lose your entitlement to DLA if you have been invited to claim PIP and choose not to do so.
If you were aged 65 or over on 8th April 2013 and receiving DLA, you will remain on DLA as long as you continue to meet the disability criteria.
Disability Living Allowance remains in place for children under 16 years of age.
This is a non-means tested benefit for people up to the age of 65 with a long term, permanent condition that affects their walking ability and their ability to look after themselves at home.
The mobility component is paid at lower or higher rate and the care component is paid at lower, middle or higher rate. ( standard and enhanceed rates only on the PIP)
Introduced in October 2008 to replace Income Support and Incapacity Benefit, ESA is paid if you are unable to work or have limited capability for work because of illness or disability.
There are two types of ESA - Contributory and Income-related. Anyone in receipt of Income-related ESA has been or will be migrated to Universal Credit by March 2025.
To qualify you must be aged between 16 years and under the state pension age.
We can provide a full Benefits Check to assess your entitlement to any benefits.
We can give specialist confidential assistance and support to anyone who is claiming a disability benefit for the first time.
This can be of great help to anyone who has not been claimed before as the paperwork involved can be very daunting and off putting, with this help and support we aim to make it easier to claim the benefits you are entitled too.
For any information and advice on claiming disability benefits for the first time do not hesitate to contact Phillipa Valentine.
We can give specialist confidential assistance and support to anyone who is claiming a disability benefit for the first time.
This can be of great help to anyone who has not been claimed before as the paperwork involved can be very daunting and off putting, with this help and support we aim to make it easier to claim the benefits you are entitled too.
For any information and advice on claiming disability benefits for the first time do not hesitate to contact us.
Please contact Phillipa Valentine
We can provide specialist advice and support to anyone who is renewing their benefits. We can also offer information and advice on the current changes to the welfare benefits system, including the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
Please contact Phillipa Valentine
We can offer information, advice and support to anyone who wishes to make an appeal on a benefits award decision.
We can signpost you to agencies who can help you make an appeal.
Just because a decision may have gone against your claim does not always mean that you are not entitled, you should always consider that it is possible that they have got that decision wrong and that it is worth putting in an appeal.
Please contact the DAG office:
Whitby, Scarborough and Ryedale DAG
The Coliseum,
1B Victoria Place,
Whitby,
North Yorkshire
YO21 1EZ
T: 01947 511118
E: info@whitbydag.org.uk
