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My local council Welfare Rights Officers have always been knowledgeable, supportive and efficient at helping me, even when their jobs have been under threat of cuts.

I was helped by Richmond Aid a disability building

Macmillan informed me I'd been on wrong benefit for almost 5 yes. I was too scared to ask DWP to back date the arrears, they scare the living daylights out of me.

Kirlees Social Services in huddersfield helped me but it was 30yrs ago

Without the help of the Citizens advice bureau l would never have received P.I.P

Hi I was helped by an advice worker employed by a local organization for people with my health condition. The group got funding and used it to employ the adviser. She was a former benefit adviser. She did two MRs for me both successful. I WD say join everything both national and local for people with yr health condition/ related conditions. The group also pointed me to a hospital specialist to get diagnosed (after ten years of utter hell) and a specialist in London for an opinion on the prognosis of my illness. All of this would have been absolutely impossible with just the GP. Many groups will accept your membership without a diagnosis yet as they know how difficult it is to get one. They often have advice lines and regular magazines and meet ups which are very beneficial to combat isolation. Good luck.

Thurrock Centre for Independent Living is a charity based in The Beehive, Grays, Essex; which has helped vulnerable, disabled and elderly clients complete their various application forms albeit DLA, PIP or AA. They provide advice, support and assistance regarding MR and appeals too. 

Autistic Nottingham, I have an advocate who has helped me with different things including my ESA review in 2021 which was very stressful due to the assessment company constantly making mistakes and causing me to have panic attacks, I had asked for a female HCP, they kept booking appointments with males and would then have to cancel and reschedule, plus trying to use a 4 year old form, eventually a complaint was made and they allowed me to write a new ESA50 which my advocate helped with, she also wrote me a supporting letter even though at the time she wasn't very well herself. This triggered the assessment company to ask my GP for further information, I then had a paper based assessment and was moved from WRAG to SG.

I was helped by a Conservative MP. He was great. He and his team helped me so much. The tricks and lies and injustice I had received from the DWP Benefits was soul destroying. It is too much to write here. However, Beverly and Holderness, MP. Mr. Graham Stuart, stood up for me; fast, concise, direct, graciously and helped me in my benefit payments (again so many different categories).

I recently received PIP after using advice from you and I had help from my Housing Association. It's a large association based in the Midlands & London. 

A local charity called Families in Focus helped me many years ago. I had tried unsuccessfully to claim DLA for my disabled daughter. They were very patient and informative. Unfortunately they were not allowed to come into the room for the appeal tribunal but I felt prepared and ultimately successful. 

Torridge Voluntary Services helped when a diagnosis of Mixed Dementia was added to my disabilities

Tim Vasey the manager and founder of the Scarborough disability action group (Scarborough DAG) has helped thousands of people with advice form filling and representing at tribunals over the last 30 plus years (including me with pip and ESA tribunals and won both)

When it came to the time of my Pip appeal. My care coordinator wrote a very good letter for me. And in addition to that I received invaluable help from a welfare benefits advisor at mind in Croydon. They represented me at the appeal as well. Which incidently took place on the phone because of lockdown.

With government encouragement everyone to work from home even advise centres are impossible to get appointments with and advice is what you can obtain from the internet just a total waste of time. Need legal aid brought back and solicitors to give advice and take action for justice 

I was rejected by DWP as the guy from Capita lied about me. I was awarded 2 points only so turned down immediately. 

Benefits advisor from MacMillan Cancer Support did my mandatory reconsideration after my PIP claim was unsuccessful ( awarded 2 points for wearing hearing aids only). My Face to Face assessment was extremely poor, dishonest and incomplete. I complained direct to the Assessors employer ( Capita) and as a result I was reassessed from scratch ( another face to face assessment). I have a rare progressive neurological condition as a result of cancer treatment ( extensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy)  39 years ago. This has manifested as a visible upper body disability which also impacts my mobility.