If you’ve sustained a long-term illness, injury or experienced a sudden change in your financial circumstances, you may be entitled to claim certain benefits.
The Welfare Benefits System is incredibly complex to navigate and full of legal rules you may not understand. You may find it extremely daunting, but our welfare benefit advisers can support existing clients and help you make your application to take the burden and stress away from you. Getting the right advice at an early stage is vital and can help with you getting a successful outcome.
While our service is chargeable (except for clients making a personal injury claim), we can offer you a free initial consultation to discuss whether we can help and advise you on our fees.
We can offer advice about all welfare benefits to existing clients, including:
- Appeals before the tribunal
- Drafting appeal letters and mandatory reconsideration letters
- Backdated claims for benefits
- Advice on attending medical assessments
- Universal Credit
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Personal Independence Payment (PIP)
- Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
- Attendance Allowance
- Pension Credit.
We can also offer welfare advice related to personal injury trusts, if you’ve sustained a serious injury, or have a case in the Court of Protection.
Why choose Irwin Mitchell's welfare and benefits experts?
Our specialist team of welfare and benefits advisers offer a unique service. Our team is made up of experts who’ve over 30 years’ collective experience in dealing with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), making successful benefit applications. We’re fully experienced in presenting cases before the Social Security Tribunal.
We have the knowledge and experience to ensure you get everything you’re entitled to claim.
We can help you challenge decisions made by the DWP. If you don’t believe a decision was fair, we can represent you in appeals and help you to build a strong case. We’ve over 90% success rates at tribunal hearings thanks to our expertise in this area of law.
We understand that everyone’s situation is unique, which is why we offer guidance that’s tailored to your specific needs. We also understand that these issues can be sensitive ones to talk about. We’ll do all we can to reassure you and make sure your affairs are handled with consideration and care.
If you’ve experienced an injury or illness that wasn’t your fault, you’ll also be able to speak to our Support and Rehabilitation coordinators. As trained clinical specialists, these coordinators can assess the help and support you need. We work with many charities and support groups across the UK, meaning they can help you to access the help you need and make sure it’s close by.
Our welfare and benefits team have ongoing relationships with various charities, including:
Our clients have given us consistently high praise for our help with welfare and benefit issues. Many have left positive reviews on Trustpilot, stating:
- “Melissa Davis helped us both with our benefits as we wouldn't have been able to work it all out ourselves. She was always on hand if we were worried about anything. We are continuing to receive support from her colleagues on other matters. They are a very kind, considerate and helpful team.”
- “The staff at Irwin Mitchell have been incredibly helpful. They kept me fully informed and updated whenever there were any developments. thank you for your help.”
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