Type of service: Advice and advocacy

Website: https://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/social-health/adult-care-and-wellbeing/benefits-debt-and-legal-matters/welfare-benefits/welfare-benefits.aspx

Our welfare rights team can help you find out about the benefits you're entitled to and how to claim.

If you live in Derbyshire we can help with advice and can take on any representation that you may need, including:

• dealing with welfare benefits and tax credits, sometimes referred to as social security
• advice over the phone about which benefits to claim and how to claim them
• sending out claim forms and advising on how to challenge decisions by the benefits authorities
• helping you if you don't agree with a decision made about your benefit claim, including preparing appeals and representing you at tribunal hearings