Benefits advice or help with a benefits appeal
Welfare Rights can help you with queries about your benefits, we can also help and support you to challenge benefit decisions with an appeal.
Need help or advice about your rights? Contact us Monday to Thursday, from 8.30am until 5.00pm and Friday 8.30am until 4.30pm. All services are confidential and free of charge if you live in County Durham.
Benefits advice
If you need advice on a benefit issue, we can:
- Give you information on what benefits you might be entitled to and how to claim them.
- Check that you are getting the right amount of benefit.
- Advise you on what will happen if your circumstances change.
- Give advice on how to ask for a reconsideration of a decision, or appeal against it.
Contact us for more information.
Benefits appeals
If you've recently had a benefit claim turned down and are appealing against this, we can help you with specialist advice and support. We can help you prepare your case and attend the tribunal hearing with you.
Contact us to ask for help with your benefits appeal.
Who is eligible
All services are confidential and free of charge if you live in County Durham.
- Welfare Rights
- welfare.rights@durham.gov.uk
- 03000 268 968
-
Our address is:
- Revenues and Benefits
- PO Box 254
- Stanley
- County Durham
- United Kingdom
- DH8 1GG
