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Benefits Advice

Did you know that every year there are millions of pounds in benefits that are unclaimed ?

Did you know that you may be entitled to some help with your rent and council tax even if you are working or have savings.

Did you know that;

You may be entitled to claim extra help if you are disabled?
The money you pay in Child Care Costs can be ignored from your income?
You may be entitled to Tax Credits even if you don’t have a family?
You may be able to claim EXTRA help with your rent and Council Tax on top of your Housing Benefit?
Many energy and utility companies have funds set aside to help customers in serious debt

WNWHL has experienced Benefit Advisers who are able to help you claim everything to which you are entitled.

If you are struggling to manage and have lots of debts, we may be able to help by contacting the people to whom you owe money.

Sometimes we are able to apply for special one off payments from charitable funds to help with your debts.

If we can’t help, we’ll put you in touch with experts who can.

You can contact us by attending one of the weekly sessions the we hold at your Neighbourhood Housing Office and we can be contacted directly by telephone at any time.

Benefit Take Up and Awareness Campaign

We have recently completed a successful Benefit Take Up and Awareness Campaign in the Sheltered Housing Complexes in the Kirkstall and Little London areas.

This resulted in us securing anextra £7,500 for our customers, in benefits that they had not claimed.

Over the next few weeks we will be visiting the Sheltered Housing Schemes in the Pudsey and Wortley areas. We will display posters in the communal areas to let you tenants know when we will be at their complex.