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Disability Alliance Factsheets

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

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You can also order up to three paper versions of our factsheets, briefings or responses if you send an A4 envelope and a 65p stamp to Disability Alliance, Universal House, 88-94 Wentworth Street, London, E1 7SA.

If you require more than three factsheets or for publications available in alternative formats, such as audio tape, large print and braille, please contact Disability Alliance on  020 7247 8776 (voice and minicom) or by fax on 020 7247 8765.

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 - work focused interviews
• 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 - trusts - effect on benefits and tax credits
• Factsheet F19 - finding the law
• Factsheet F20 - armed forces compensation scheme
• Factsheet F21 - finding information on the disability alliance website 
• Factsheet F22 - attendance allowance 
• Factsheet F23 - disability living allowance
• Factsheet F24 - incapacity benefit
• Factsheet F25 - incapacity benefit - the personal capability assessment test
• Factsheet F26 - list of organisations providing benefits advice
• 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 overview
• Factsheet F32 - employment and support allowance medical tests
• Factsheet F33 - employment and support allowance activities,descriptors and points (pdf format)
• 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 F47 - child trust fund
• Factsheet F48 - education maintenance allowance and adult learning grants
• Factsheet F49 - housing grants
• Factsheet F51 - disabled facilities grants
• Factsheet F52 - help with the digital switchover
• Factsheet F53 - help with heating
• Factsheet F54 - independent living fund
• Factsheet F56 - voice risk analysis and benefit claims
• Factsheet F57 - appeal tribunal reform
• Factsheet F58 - the watersure scheme

Alphabetical list of factsheets

• access to work
• adult learning grants
• appealing to the upper tribunal against a first tier tribunal decision
• appeals - first tier tribunal submissions
• appeals - medical evidence
• appeals -reconsideration and appeal
• appeals - tips for preparing for tribunals
• appeals - tribunal reform
• armed forces compensation scheme
• attendance allowance
• benefits checklist
• bereavement benefits
• blue badge scheme
• carer's allowance
• charging for community care
• charging for residential accommodation
• child benefit and guardian's allowance
• child trust fund
• community and residential care - complaining about assessments or charges
• community care direct payments
• 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 activities,descriptors and points
• employment and support allowance medical tests
• employment and support allowance overview
• finding a local advice centre
• finding information on the disability alliance website
• finding the law
• heating help
• hospital benefits
• housing benefit
• housing grants
• housing grants - complaining
• human rights act
• incapacity benefit
• incapacity benefit - the personal capability assessment test
• independent living fund
• income support
• jobseeker's allowance
• maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• motability scheme
• organisations providing benefits advice
• parliamentary bill stages
• pension credit
• prescription charges/health benefits
• right payment programme
• social fund
• tax credits guide
• trusts - effect on benefits and tax credits
• voice risk analysis and benefit claims
• watersure scheme
• work focused interviews
• work for people who are sick and disabled

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