Your welfare rights
Contact our Welfare Rights team to make sure you don't miss out on money that you can claim as benefits.
The Welfare Rights team
We aim to help you get the most from your benefits by:
- giving benefit advice
- training other organisations to give benefit advice
- publishing information about claiming benefits
- working with organisations that can offer legal help
- representing you if you make a benefits appeal, or if your benefit claim is turned down
If you need advice on your right to claim benefits you can:
- phone 01273 291 116 on Monday Tuesday Wednesday, 10am to 1pm
- email welfarerights@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Benefits guidance
We publish a range of guides about benefits and how to claim them:
- Personal Independence Payment
- Benefits for Carers
- Attendance Allowance
- Universal Credit, Employment Support Allowance, sickness and disability
- Mandatory Reconsideration - challenging benefit decisions
- Universal credit advances
- Universal Credit and domestic violence and abuse
- Mixed age couples
- Deductions
You can visit the GOV.UK website for more information about benefits.
GOV.UK also publishes guidance on