Booklets
The Welfare Benefits Unit publishes The Advisers' Guide to Benefits and Tax Credits. This compact handbook provides information on the main conditions of entitlement, rates and how to claim.
- Advisers' Guide to Benefits and Tax Credits (Download flyer 232k)
The Welfare Benefits Unit also publishes two booklets for members of the public:
- Benefits if you are disabled ( Download PDF 193k )
- Benefits for people over 60 ( Download PDF 147k )
These are widely distributed via Adult and Community Services departments, Citizens Advice Bureaux, doctors' surgeries, libraries and voluntary agencies.
Bulletin
The Welfare Benefits Unit Bulletin is published quarterly and is sent to subscribers. It contains information on new benefits and tax credits, updates on changes to benefits and items of general interest. If you would like to join our mailing list please contact us on admin@welfare-benefits-unit.org.uk
Other publications available from the Welfare Benefits Unit
Our briefing papers and information sheets cover a wide range of topics including Paying for Care Homes, Benefits for Young People and a Benefits Checklist. The briefing papers are written for advisers only but the information sheets are designed for members of the public. If you'd like to purchase copies of these then please contact us.
We also produce an A5-size card indicating benefit and tax credit rates.
( Download PDF ratecard 490k )