From Women with Visible and Invisible Disabilities
Our updated
& expanded
Self-help benefit rights sheet is ready! |
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Rights info and helpful suggestions about
how to defend your benefits, housing
and other entitlements:
Council
Tax ●
Bedroom tax
● People
in private rented accommodation
●
Universal Credit – is it coming in?
●
Challenging benefit sanctions
● Sickness
and disability benefits
● Debt
advice
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The best-known advice agencies mainly tell people how to comply with
the new rules. Most don’t give us the information we need to fight our
cases. The information here comes from sharing our practical experience with
other grassroots groups, claimants, anti-poverty, single mums, tenants’
rights and disability campaigners, and a few lawyers bringing legal
challenges.
This
Benefit self-help rights sheet
(and printable 18-page pdf attached to this email)
is expanded from our 2013 self-help info. It was put together mostly through
a huge voluntary effort. WinVisible put in many days on behalf of the
community campaign for everyone’s entitlement and against “welfare reform”.
Thanks to all the claimants, campaigners, advisers, lawyers who contributed
their experiences, expertise and leaflets!
Women
who used the rights info say:
“I got a letter from Atos
telling me not to come to the exam, I think this may be down to the MP's letter, ain’t that great,
thanks it’s all down to your advice.”
“I actually did not get a form for ESA
reassessment this summer, even though I had no confirmation of receipt of the
letter we wrote. It just didn't turn up and consequently I have been
able to have a summer without hospitalisation for the first time in three
years. So that is fantastic news and I am immensely grateful.”
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