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NEW FOR 2007/8:
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The new DLA forms!
Tactics, tips and templates
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The DLA ‘hobbies and
interests’ pages (expanded)
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DLA and Bi Polar
Disorder/ Manic Depression
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Self harm and suicide
- bad DLA decisions
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Goodbye Incapacity
hello Employment and Support Allowance — the shape of tests to come
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Tax Credit Overpayment
changes - Benefit Linking Rules changes
Plus Contents: Barriers to Benefit,
Jobcentre Plus and the DWP, Steps to Maximum Entitlement,
The Sickness Route to Benefits
(including example form/ support letters),
DLA and Incapacity Medicals,
Benefits for Carers, Income Support, Pension Credit,
Working Tax Credit and Child Tax
Credit, Community Care Grants,
DLA and AA (including example
forms/ support letters), Options for Work, Permitted Work Rules,
Benefits in Hospital, Revisions,
Supersessions and Appeals (including example submission)
FEEDBACK FROM
PREVIOUS EDITIONS:
“An essential
piece of kit for all community mental health teams, community psychiatric
nurses, approved social workers and voluntary groups as well as general
benefit advisers... If you have a mental health problem and are trying to
cope with the benefit system or if you are a professional who wants to give
good solid advice there is no better guide that you can buy...” Community
Care Magazine
“The book puts
into words my own experiences, feelings and thoughts...”
service user
“The DLA form
took half the time and was more detailed than it would have been”
Social Worker
“This
substantial but tremendously accessible handbook could well be one of the
most useful guides around ...” Health and Care.com
“These books
have been a goldmine for my Community Support Team and Housing Support Staff
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“Absolutely
superb - extremely impressive”
Director - Local Mind Association
“ Far exceeded
our expectations both in term of content and presentation”
- LMA
Orders: Judy Stenger - Neath Mind,
32 Victoria Gardens, Neath SA11 3BH Tel. 01639-643905
Cheques payable to ‘Neath Mind
Association - Income Project’
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