Welfare Benefits

The full range of Welfare Benefits from initial enquiry to representation, including: Income Support, Working Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit, Job Seekers Allowance, Housing and Council Tax Benefit, Social Fund, Incapacity Benefit, Attendence Allowance, Disability Living Allowance.

Council Tax

We advise on challenges to liability, help to negotiate reasonable offers of repayment and represent clients at committal hearings.

Case Study:

In February wee took instructions from Ms A who had received a decision from the City Council to say that she was not entitled to Housing Benefit because her tenancy was supposedly not on a commercial basis. To make matters worse, Ms A was advised by the Council that information had come to light which meant that she would have to repay benefit of £34,000 which she had been recieving for the past 6 years.

We represented her at a successful appeal to a Social Security Appeal Tribunal, which decided that the tenancy was a genuine commercial one and that it had been all along.Her Housing Benefit of £430 per month was re-instated and it was decided that the £34,000 had not been overpaid and was not recoverable from her.