Disability Green Paper: our response
In July 2021 the government issued Shaping future support: the health and disability green paper.
Our Disability Green Paper response draws on the experiences of our clients in navigating the complexities of the benefits system. Read more about this and our other work here.
News & campaigns
Citizens Advice Sheffield is asking everyone to support the national campaign to persuade the Government to Keep the Lifeline £20 uplift in Universal Credit and make it permanent.
Find out more here: Keep the Lifeline Sheffield, Aug 2021
What benefits am I entitled to?
If you want to know the answer to the above question, you can use our benefits calculator tool to find out.
We are really excited about introducing this tool to help you to help yourself, empowering you to have the confidence you need to tackle the issues you may be facing.
We know that Covid 19 has had a disproportionate impact on the poorest communities, who face a “cliff edge” into poverty and in some cases destitution and homelessness as temporary support and protections are removed. Whilst the budget did signal limited extensions to some of the protections, the insecurity and fear of the future is an intolerable weight for many and the unresolved problems are building.
We have published our impact report for the period April to September 2020, which shows how we have helped people though our advice services.
We have continued to provide services during the COVID-19 pandemic since we ceased seeing clients in person back in March 2020, to protect our clients, staff and volunteers, by changing to services being provided by phone and digital.
Great news – Citizens Advice Sheffield have a new freephone number for its Adviceline, so that people can contact us without it costing anything to call.
The new Adviceline freephone number is 0808 278 7820 and is available Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm
This is really good news as it means that people in need of our help can contact us without having to worry about the cost of the call, especially when calling from mobile phones if have very little credit as is the case with a lot of our clients.
