Advice & Advocacy Services

Disability Wessex, now part of Diverse Abilities Plus, is pleased to be able to offer assistance once again with disability benefits, for people with disabilities, people with chronic and acute health conditions and their families or carers and parents of children with disabilities.

Disability Benefit Claims

Do you need help to fill out an application form to apply for or renew a disability benefit?

Do you need help to challenge a disability benefit decision that you beleive is wrong?

Do you need help to prepare an appeal or support at a tribunal hearing?

Deputyship

Do you have a child who is approaching 18 years of age who is not able to make decisions for themselves about their finances, their living arrangements and their support?

Do you have a parent or spouse who has had a stroke or developed dementia and can no longer make their own decisions?

A deputy is awarded the legal power to act for an adult who lacks the capacity to make their own major decisions.

Our Advisors

  • Have extensive knowledge of the benefits system and of different impairments and conditions.

  • Many have personal experience of the benefits system and living with an impairment or a condition themselves.

  • Were successful in helping people get a benefit to which they are entitled in 98% of cases in 2009-2010.

  • Have or are working towards NVQ level 2/3 in Information Advice and Guidance.

Having support from specialist welfare rights advisors, like ours, significantly improves your chances of winning a reconsideration or appeal and being awarded a benefit. It can also make it less intimidating for you.

CLICK HERE FOR HELP WITH A DISABILITY BENEFIT CLAIM

CLICK HERE FOR HELP TO APPLY FOR A DEPUTYSHIP