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If you’re on a low income and struggling to cover your rent, you could claim Housing Benefit. Housing Benefit is money to help people on a low income to cover their rent. Housing Benefit is a means-tested ... means-tested benefit. This means the amount you can get depends on: your savings who you live with how much rent you pay how many rooms you have in your home if you get disability or carer’s benefits (such as
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after, or give any help or support to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of longterm physical or mental ill-health or disability, or issues related to growing older. As a carer, you’ve ... you’ve certain rights that can help make your life that bit easier. You have the right to: • receive information, advice and assistance from your Local Authority about support services like practical help at
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We're campaigning to help people with their advance care planning
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Free and really useful information and advice We are Age Cymru. Our network includes Age UK, Age NI, Age Scotland, Age International and more than 160 local partners. Age Cymru is part of the Age UK network ... network, which also includes Age NI and Age Scotland. There are also local Age Cymru partners across Wales. This information leaflet has been prepared by Age Cymru and Age UK and contains general information
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Benefit and Local Welfare Provision June 2024 (Amended September 2024) About this factsheet The Social Fund is a scheme to help people with expenses that are difficult to meet from a low income and includes: ... includes: ⚫ Winter Fuel Payments ⚫ Cold Weather Payments ⚫ Funeral Expenses Payments Advances of Benefit are payments that partially replaced the discretionary Social Fund and include: ⚫ Short-term advances
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things to consider if you want to plan ahead and make financial and other arrangements for your funeral. It looks at options when deciding what type of funeral you want, ways to pay for a funeral, and information ... the factsheet to record your funeral arrangement preferences and other helpful information for family or friends. The information in this factsheet is correct for the period February 2024 to January 2025
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practical help and emotional support to older people through this volunteer led project, so that they may participate and connect to their community with the support of trained volunteers to provide friendship ... raise confidence and increase awareness of available support. The project provides two services: • Assist and Connect - a community based, face to face support service • Listen and Connect - a remote
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Sally.west@ageuk.org.uk Jane.vass@ageuk.org.uk 2 The Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first and last ‘Spring’ Budget on 8 March (as Budgets will in future take place in the Autumn). In a document ... funding for social care which, as set out in our report The Health and Care of Older People in England 2017, is now not only failing to meet the needs of increasing numbers of older people (1.2 million
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largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life. We are national In the UK we help more than seven million people every year, providing support, companionship and advice for older people ... partners Age Cymru, Age NI and Age Scotland and over 150 local Age UK partners in England. We are international We work with our international subsidiary charity, Age International, to fund programmes in over
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Buying retirement housing November 2023 About this factsheet This factsheet explains options and issues to consider if you are thinking about buying retirement housing. This is specialist housing for older ... people and how to choose a suitable option is in factsheet 64, Specialist housing for older people. Information on the process of buying a home, including how to find an estate agent or solicitor and help
