{"id":63,"date":"2016-05-12T21:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cabwhabac\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2023-01-22T20:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T20:24:02","slug":"benefits","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s important to make sure that you get all the financial help that you&#8217;re\u00a0entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>We provide benefit checks to ensure that if you are working or\u00a0unemployed, sick or disabled, a parent, a young person, an older person\u00a0or a veteran, you receive all you are entitled to including help with\u00a0council tax and housing costs.<\/p>\n<p>We can also assist if you have problems with benefits or tax credits\u00a0which you are already receiving. Specifically we can help you to\u00a0challenge and appeal decisions in relation to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delayed Benefit and Tax Credit Payments<\/li>\n<li>Employment &amp; Support Allowance<\/li>\n<li>Children\u2019s Disability Living Allowance<\/li>\n<li>Benefit and Tax Credit Overpayments<\/li>\n<li>Jobseekers Allowance Sanctions<\/li>\n<li>Co-habitation (Living Together) decisions<\/li>\n<li>Deprivation of Capital appeals<\/li>\n<li>Habitual Residence\/Right to Reside appeals for UK, EU and\u00a0EEA Nationals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Are you suffering from an Emergency\/Crisis and you need help?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are suffering temporary hardship, (for example due to delays in\u00a0Benefits and Tax Credit Payments), we can help you to access:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worcester Food Bank<\/li>\n<li>Worcester City Council Discretionary Welfare Assistance Scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(This provides assistance in the form of goods or vouchers to help\u00a0individuals or families facing exceptionally difficult circumstances\u00a0or an emergency).<\/p>\n<p>In order to help you access these schemes we need to assess your\u00a0problem and offer help to try to resolve the problem(s) causing your\u00a0emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s important to make sure that you get all the financial help that you&#8217;re\u00a0entitled to. We provide benefit checks to ensure that if you are working or\u00a0unemployed, sick or disabled, a parent, a young person, an older person\u00a0or a veteran, you receive all you are entitled to including help with\u00a0council tax and housing costs. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}