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Available mid May 2010.
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Price £31.50 per copy (inc VAT) £14.00 if you are on benefits Bulk orders - see order form ISBN: 978-1-903335-51-2 Also available as a print version |
If you want to know which benefits you can claim and don’t know your rights, the Disability Rights Handbook is the guide for you.
Written in an easy to read style the Handbook contains everything you need to know about social security benefits, tax credits and related services for disabled people. Fully updated each year, this essential reference book has helped hundreds of thousands of disabled people, their families and carers as well as professional advisers.
Note: Our handbook has been completely restructured to reflect changes across the whole benefit system following the introduction of employment and support allowance.
Keep your handbook up to date with our new email updates service.
Special Offer: Get a discount if you order this publication with any of:
disability rights handbook (print version)
dla/aa - a guide to making a claim
employment and support allowance guide
See our order form for more details.
Note: for pdf files you will need to download adobe acrobat reader. To convert the pdf to alternative formats or for more information on accessibility go to access adobe.
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Ginny
As a manager of a community centre which incorporates a money advice team we find this book invaluable. Its so easy to use for reference and is written in a manner which simplifies often complicated benefits. An advice workers bible.
Margaret
I've bought each year's handbook for quite some time now and have, on numerous occasions found it has helped to sort out my, or someone else's benefit problems. When I had to go to a tribunal to sort out my DLA, several years ago now, I decided, with the help of the handbook, to represent myself.
A couple of weeks or so before the event, I got slightly cool feet and decided to ask to discuss my case with an advisor at the local Citizens' Advice Bureau and discovered that I knew more than he did! I went to the tribunal and was awarded the benefit at the level which, with the assistance of the handbook, I had calculated I should be getting.
More recently, my cleaner's husband had an accident at work and was off work for several months. We were talking one morning and I asked if he was getting Industrial Injury Benefit, to which her reply was, 'What's that?' I found her the relevant section in the handbook which she took home with her to show to him. The eventual result was that he was given the benefit. He lost two weeks' worth but, without the handbook, he would never even have known that it existed!
Peter Hill
Thank you for the availability of this publication . Without it , I would not be able to know what information to ask for, as the benefits agency in my area , will not inform you of your rights, and what to process, which delays your claim for benefits.
Wendy
I am a parent/carer for a young man with severe learning disabilities. I have purchased this book for many years and have found it invaluable.
I recommend it to every individual and organisation with which I am involved (I am a special school governor, trustee of 2 disability charities, etc.) It has allowed me to assist other parent/carers when they are given incorrect information regarding their rights and benefits.
I am amazed at how frequently the various government and local authority agencies give inaccurate and wrong information to us about our rights - and this is often accepted by applicants who do not have the correct information available to them. Thank you, Disability Alliance, for publishing this little gem!
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