Welfare Benefits

We have helped older people in Oxfordshire receive an additional £10 million of benefits since 2002 by working with them to check their entitlement, helping them to complete claims and sorting out problems.

People over 60 may be entitled to one or a number of benefits including:

Attendance Allowance
Carers Allowance
Pension Credit
Housing and Council Tax Benefit

Some benefits are based on a person’s health, physical or mental disability, others on the person’s financial situation. A number of benefits are interlinked so that receipt of one benefit triggers or increases entitlement to another. Entitlement rules can be quite complicated, and everyone’s circumstances are different. It is therefore very important to get expert advice on what you may be entitled to.

Personal circumstances change as we get older: health can deteriorate, housing situations change, and bereavement can affect us all. Major life changes can bring about new entitlements to benefits, so it is particularly important that if you have recently experienced a major change in your life you find out if this has affected your entitlement to benefits.

Contact the Helpline on 01235 849400 or email us to see if there is anything else you are entitled to.