Mind in Croydon's Welfare Benefits Advice
The Welfare Benefits Advice service was set up to offer advice and assistance on complex welfare benefits issues to people suffering from mental health problems, their carers, and professionals working in the mental health field.
It is a specialist service focusing on cases which need to be taken to Tribunals on appeal and others which raise difficult legal issues or which require detailed understanding of the administrative procedures of the Department of Work and Pensions and other public bodies.
Mind Welfare Benefits also offer advice, support and consultancy where necessary to people helping clients with any sort of benefit problem.
Since the service began in 1995 it has raised in excess of seventeen
million pounds in previously unclaimed benefits
The Welfare Benefits Advice service is available by referral from
professionals working with mental health service users and their carers.
We also accept telephone queries. Please call 020 8763 2037 for further
information.
Additional information on welfare benefits can be obtained at the following sites:
The Department for Work & Pensions
London Advice Services Alliance
Welfare Benefits Advice
Mind in Croydon
Welfare Benefits Advice
26 Pampisford Road
Purley
Surrey
CR8 2NE
Tel: 020 8763 2037
Fax: 020 8763 2084
Email: wba@mindincroydon.org.uk
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