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.
The topics our courses cover include:
- an overview of benefits
- Universal Credit and how it's calculated
- Universal Credit and sickness
- Universal Credit and housing costs
- Universal Credit and deductions
- Personal Independence Payment
- welfare conditionality and sanctions
If you think our courses can help you or your organisation or for more information about these courses, email us at welfarerights@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Other benefits advice
The table below shows the websites of other organisations who 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 |
| Brighton Housing Trust | 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 |
| Working 50 Plus | Help to find a job for anyone over 50 years old |