Getting your benefits
It's important that you are getting the benefits you are entitled to. Many benefits are not means-tested, which means that you become eligible because of a mental or physical illness or disability.
What benefits are available?
See the other pages in this section to find out about different benefits, whether you might be entitled to them, and how to go about claiming.
As well as those listed here, there may be other further benefits you can claim depending on your own personal circumstances.
Click here to go to the Government's A-Z guide to benefits.
Online calculators are available that will work out for you the benefits you can claim from local and national government. These include income-related benefits, Council Tax Reduction and Universal Credit as well as the benefits covered in these pages.
The Gov.uk website gives details of calculators that are available and how to use them: Click here.
The benefits system in England is currently undergoing changes, with new benefits being introduced and some entitlement criteria changing.
Local Emergency Support
If you live in Buckinghamshire and satisfy the criteria, you may be eligible for Local Emergency Support. The decision on whether to grant this benefit will be based on your individual circumstances.
Local Emergency Support is intended to cover urgent short-term emergencies such as no immediate food or no heating or lighting through the use of foodbanks, food vouchers, utility meter top-ups or limited assistance towards other forms of fuel.
Click here to find out more.
Using this page
Click using the arrows to the right and left or the headings at the top to move through this section and see what information is available.