SERVICE DETAILS
Our specialist Advice Workers can help you to maximise your income, carefully considering each individual and family we work with.
We can help you with:
- Benefit checks to maximise income and check benefit entitlement
- Making benefit applications for example for Universal Credit, and sickness or disability benefits like the Adult Disability Payment (ADP)
- Applying for emergency funding such as Crisis Grants and Budgeting Advances
- Applying for Community Care Grants or charity grants to help furnish a home
- Appealing any benefit decisions
- Gathering medical evidence for a benefit appeal
- Providing representation at tribunal appeals
- Difficulties with budgeting
- Debt issues which can involve negotiating repayment plans with creditors, or applying for formal debt solutions like bankruptcy or the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS)
- Problems with fuel such as electricity/gas arrears or disconnection
- Housing issues like identifying housing options, homelessness, rent and mortgage arrears, evictions, repossessions, disrepair, or disputes with your landlord
- Making referrals to other organisations that include employability and support
Our Locations...
As well as our office-based advice services we operate within various city-wide settings including GP practices, council offices, hospitals, schools, Early Years Centres, mental health and addiction recovery hubs and community centres. See our where we work page at https://chaiedinburgh.org.uk/where-we-work for a full list of venues.
