Benefits and tax credits

• Advice about claiming benefits and tax credits and help to fill out forms
• Impartial advice about what you can claim
• Help if you’re not happy with a decision about your benefits or tax credits
• Click here for a quick guide to some of the beneifts that are available and how to claim them.

National Support

• Citizens Advice Bureau information about benefits
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Direct Gov guide to benefits
• www.entitled.to.co.uk Online benefits calculator

Support from Suffolk councils

• Babergh District Council www.babergh-south-suffolk.gov.uk/Babergh/Home/Benefits
• Forest Heath District Council www.forest-heath.gov.uk/Council/Benefits+and+Council+Tax
• Ipswich Borough Council www.ipswich.gov.uk/Services/Benefits
• Mid Suffolk District Council www.midsuffolk.gov.uk/Council+Tax+and+Benefits
• Suffolk Coastal District Council www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk/yourhome/benefits
• Suffolk County Council www.suffolk.gov.uk/CareAndHealth/Money/WelfareRights
• St Edmundsbury Borough Council www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/live/beneiadv
• Waveney District Council www.waveney.gov.uk/Benefits

Local support in Suffolk

Age Concern benefit advice services (age 60+)
45a Ipswich Street, Stowmarket, IP14 1AH
01449 674222

Community Solutions (Ipswich)
69 Bramford Road, Ipswich, IP1 2LT
01473 226945

Ipswich Housing Action Group
PO Box 122, Ipswich, IP1 3RU
01473 213102

Practice Advice Team (age 60+)
01473 581802

Suffolk InfoLink: list of organisations providing benefits advice in Suffolk