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Disability Alliance Factsheets

These factsheets provide basic information about benefits, tax credits, social care and other disability related issues for claimants and advisers. They are free to download.

You can find out more detailed information in Disability Rights UK's Disability Rights Handbook, available to buy at www.radar-shop.org.uk/.

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Alphabetical list of factsheets

• access to work
• adult learning grants
• advice centres
• appeals - first tier tribunal submissions
• appeals - medical evidence
• appeals -reconsideration and appeal
• appeals - tax credits
• appeals - tips for preparing for tribunals
• appeals - to the upper tribunal against a first tier tribunal decision
• appeals - the system
• attendance allowance
• benefits checklist
• bereavement benefits
• blue badge scheme
• carer's allowance
• community care charging
• community care direct payments
• community care - personalisation and the right to control
• community care - residential accommodation charging
• community and residential care - complaining about assessments or charges
• child benefit
• council tax help
• digital switchover help
• disabled facilities grants
• disabled facilities grants - complaining
• disability living allowance
• disability living allowance for people with mental health problems  
• education maintenance allowance
• employment and support allowance
• finding a local advice centre
• finding information on the disability alliance website
• finding the law
• guardian's allowance
• heating help
• hospital benefits
• housing benefit
• housing grants
• housing grants - complaining
• human rights act
• in work benefits
• incapacity benefit
• income support
• jobseeker's allowance
• maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• motability scheme
• parliamentary bill stages
• pension credit
• personal independence payments
• personalisation
• prescription charges/health benefits
• residential accommodation charging
• right payment programme
• right to control
• social fund
• tax credits - extra money due to disability
• tax credits guide
• tax credits - if you disagree with your decision
• tax credits overpayments
• universal credit
• voice risk analysis and benefit claims
• watersure scheme
• work for people who are sick and disabled

Numerical list of factsheets

• Factsheet F1 - human rights act
• Factsheet F2 - disability living allowance for people with mental health problems  
• Factsheet F3 - charging for community care
• Factsheet F4 - charging for residential accommodation
• Factsheet F5 - community care direct payments
• Factsheet F6 - complaining about local authority decisions
• Factsheet F7 - benefits in hospital
• Factsheet F8 - the right payment programme
• Factsheet F9 - a guide to tax credits
• Factsheet F10 - tax credits - extra money due to disability
• Factsheet F11 - tips for preparing for tribunals
• Factsheet F12 - pension credit  
• Factsheet F13 - benefits checklist
• Factsheet F14 - prescription charges/health benefits
• Factsheet F15 - finding a local advice centre
• Factsheet F16 - the stages of a parliamentary bill 
• Factsheet F17 - the motability scheme
• Factsheet F18 - tax credits overpayments
• Factsheet F19 - finding the law
• Factsheet F21 - finding information on the disability alliance website 
• Factsheet F22 - attendance allowance 
• Factsheet F23 - disability living allowance
• Factsheet F24 - incapacity benefit
• Factsheet F27 - access to work
• Factsheet F28 - bereavement benefits
• Factsheet F29 - blue badge scheme
• Factsheet F30 - carer's allowance
• Factsheet F31 - employment and support allowance
• Factsheet F34 - if you disagree with your tax credits decision
• Factsheet F35 - work for people who are sick and disabled
• Factsheet F36 - reconsideration and appeal - the basics
• Factsheet F37 - medical evidence and appeals
• Factsheet F38 - first tier tribunal submissions
• Factsheet F39 - appealing to the upper tribunal against a first tier tribunal decision
• Factsheet F40 - child benefit and guardian's allowance
• Factsheet F41 - the social fund
• Factsheet F42 - maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Factsheet F43 - help with council tax
• Factsheet F44 - housing benefit
• Factsheet F45 - income support
• Factsheet F46 - jobseeker's allowance
• Factsheet F48 - education maintenance allowance, bursaries and adult learning grants
• Factsheet F49 - housing grants
• Factsheet F50 - how to claim your in work benefits
• Factsheet F52 - help with the digital switchover
• Factsheet F53 - help with heating
• Factsheet F55 - universal credit
• Factsheet F56 - voice risk analysis and benefit claims
• Factsheet F57 - the appeal system
• Factsheet F58 - the watersure scheme
• Factsheet F59 - personalisation and the right to control
• Factsheet F60 - personal independence payments

More information

• frequently asked questions
• information on benefits in alphabetical order
• what you can claim

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