What does it do?The Information and Advice department, based at Headquarters on Market Street, have a comprehensive range of fact sheets on a variety of subjects. These are the current ones:
Community Care
6 Finding help at home
10 Local authority charging procedures for care homes*
20 Continuing NHS health care, NHS funded registered nursing care and intermediate care
24 Direct Payments from social services*
29 Finding care home accommodation
32 Disability and ageing: your rights to social services*
37 Hospital discharge arrangements*
38 Treatment of the former as capital for people in care homes*
39 Paying for care in a care home if you have a partner
40 Transfer of assets and paying for care in a care home
41 Local authority assessment for community care services*
46 Paying for care and support at home*
58 Paying for Temporary Care in a Care Home
Consumer
3 Television licence concessions
7 Making your will*
14 Dealing with someone’s estate*
22 Legal arrangements for managing financial affairs*
27 Planning for a funeral*
33 Crime prevention for older people
43 Getting for legal advice*
Health
5 Dental care
23 Help with continence
44 NHS services*
45 Staying healthy in later life
61 Help with Health Costs
62 Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Housing
1 Help with heating*
2 Buying retirement housing*
8 Looking for rented housing*
9 Noise and neighbour nuisance – what you can do*
12 Raising income or capital from your home
13 Older home owners: financial help with repairs and adaptations*
35 Tenants’ rights* (See below for Scottish versions)
42 Disability equipment and how to get it
50 Housing Options
Income and Benefits
15 Income tax
17 Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit
18 A brief guide to money benefits
19 The State Pension
21 The Council Tax
34 Attendance Allowance
48 Pension Credit
49 Help from the Social Fund
52 Disability Living Allowance
53 Capital, Income and Means-Tested Benefits
55 Carer's Allowance
56 Benefits for People under State Pension Age
Leisure, Learning and Work
26 Travel information for older people
30 Leisure and learning
31 Older workers
* indicates a Scottish version also exists
NB: Scottish versions of Tenants’ rights are:
35 Rights for council and housing association tenants’*
36 Private tenants’ rights* |
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