Disability Rights Handbook - 2023-2024

ISBN: 9781903335857

Released May 2023.

The Concessionary rate is for individuals on income-related benefits, Books ordered by or for use in Organisations are not eligible for the Concessionary rate.

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The handbook provides in-depth information and invaluable guidance on the benefits system and social care services.

Full of tools and tactics to help you make a successful claim.

Your right to benefits

• For anyone with an illness, injury or disability
• For carers, children and young people
• For people in education or work, looking for work, not in work or in retirement
• For people injured at work or serving in the Armed Forces
• Eligibility requirements and how to make a claim
• Challenging decisions; how to appeal

Your right to care and support

• The eligibility criteria for people needing care and support
• Assessments, budgets and ways of paying for care
• Challenging eligibility and funding decisions
• Local authority duties
• Support for carers