Rotherham Macmillan Benefits Advice Service
The service offers people in Rotherham affected by cancer high quality, free, impartial advice and advocacy about benefit entitlements. This includes advice to patients, their carers and their family members.
The service is provided through home visits, office appointments, telephone advice and hospital based advice sessions. Access to the service is by referral from any other professional working on the case or self referral at a time that suits the client.
It covers help with:-
- Benefit entitlement
- Benefit Calculations
- Applications
- Challenging benefits decisions and representation at lower and upper tribunals
- Macmillan and other charitable grants
- Blue badges and mobility schemes
- Bereavement benefits
- Funeral grants
It will also deliver talks and briefing sessions to health staff and people living with cancer and their families.
For further details of this service, then please visit our website here
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