We've aware of a national scam where people are asked to pay parking fines via text. We'll never text you to request a payment for a parking fine. We'll only contact you about parking fines via letter, or email if you have already provided it to us. If you have any doubts, contact the Parking Team.
Benefits advice and training
Find out about the welfare rights training courses we offer, and the benefits advice you can get from other organisations online.
Welfare rights training
We offer a range of training courses to anyone who works in a local agency to help them give welfare benefits advice.
There is a summer and autumn training programme which runs from April to July and September to December. Course are free to anyone who works in a local agency. You can email us using your work email to request to be added to our mailing.
Housing associations are charged £80 per place.
We also do bespoke training for organisations where there are staff of 8 or more.
The topics our courses cover include:
- an overview of benefits
- Universal Credit and how it's calculated
- Universal Credit and sickness
- Overview of Universal Credit Migration
- Overview of Pension Credit and Attendance
- Personal Independence Payment
If you think our courses can help you or your organisation or for more information about these courses, send an email to welfarerightstraining@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Other benefits advice
The table below shows the websites of other organisations that can provide welfare benefits advice, and what they can help with.
| Website | What they can help with |
|---|---|
| Advice Brighton and Hove | Contact information for local advice agencies in Brighton and Hove, and national advice helplines |
| Age UK Brighton and Hove | Services and counselling for older people, including how to use a computer |
| BHT Sussex | Advice on housing and preventing homelessness |
| Brighton and Hove Food Partnership | Learn to cook, eat a healthy diet, grow your own food and waste less food |
| Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project | Practical support, education and advice for people on low incomes |
| Brighton and Hove Citizens Advice Bureau | Advice on any issues affecting people's lives |
| GOV.UK Benefits | Information on all welfare benefits you may be entitled to |
| East Sussex Credit Union | Advice on saving and borrowing money safely |
| Health and Adult Social Care directory | Advice on managing your money and debt, and help planning money for the future |
| Possability People | Benefits help for disabled people and those with long-term health conditions |
| Refugee Council | Support and advice for refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK |
| Royal British Legion Sussex County | Benefits help for people who have served in the UK Armed Forces |
| Shelter | Advice on Housing Benefit, Council housing and private renting |
| St Luke's Advice Service | Money and debt advice for people living in Brighton and Hove and the surrounding area |
| University of Brighton Student Advice | Budgeting advice for student life |
| University of Sussex Student Union Advice | Support for all areas of student life |
| Youth Advice Centre | Housing advice for anyone under 26 years old who is homeless or threatened with homelessness |