Financial Support
- Location: Age UK Coventry and Warwickshire
- Price: Costs may vary
Please note, this service is not available outside Age UK Coventry & Warwickshire - Head Office's catchment area.
Age UK Coventry and Warwickshire
8-10 Clemens Street
Leamington Spa
CV31 2DL
United Kingdom
Email: info@ageukcovwarks.org.uk
Telephone: 02476 231999
Website: https://www.ageuk.org.uk/coventryandwarwickshire
Our charity has provided a Money Management service for over twenty years. The service enables us to support adults with managing their financial affairs when they lack capacity to do this themselves.
Information Guides
Age UK provide information guides and factsheets on a range of topics, including several money guides that can give you more information on how to manage your money safely.
Age UK information guides and factsheets
Benefits Support
Our charity provides advice on welfare benefits, including benefit entitlement checks and offers information and signposting on housing options, care choices, and money matters through our Information and Advice Service.
Age UK Coventry & Warwickshire offers a free, confidential and quality-accredited advice service for anyone over 50, their families and carers. Within Coventry, the service is also available to people aged 18+ with long term medical conditions or dementia.
Appointeeship Services- Coventry
This service is commissioned by local authority.
Age UK Coventry and Warwickshire act as the corporate appointee for individuals who have been assessed by a registered professional as requiring support to manage their benefits. Age UK Coventry & Warwickshire will be appointed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to manage the individuals benefits on their behalf.
The service is available to residents of Coventry, and referrals must be made by an Adult Social Care professional (such as a Social Worker).
Financial Support- Warwickshire
This service is commissioned by local authority.
Financial Literacy- This service helps individuals improve their financial literacy skills by through improved understanding of their income and expenditure and supporting them to budget effectively. The support is tailored to each individual's needs, based on a self-assessment and what matters most to them.
Pre-Appointeeship - The service aims to provide ongoing Financial Literacy support to prevent the need for a formal appointeeship. Individuals must complete the Financial Literacy Programme before being support through the Pre-Appointeeship service.
Appointeeship - This service is for individuals who have been assessed by a registered professional as requiring support to manage their benefits. Age UK Coventry & Warwickshire will be appointed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to manage the individuals benefits on their behalf.
The service is available to residents of Warwickshire, and referrals must be made by an Adult Social Care professional (such as a Social Worker).