The Disability Services Advocacy Team are here to support with raising awareness of the different Disability Services benefits and grants. These are Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit (IIDB) and Access to Work (AtW). Please see details of our upskilling sessions for external stakeholders. To book a place please use each of the individual links for the relevant events.

Record numbers of people turned to Citizens Advice Northumberland for support in 2024-2025, with over 40,000 local residents seeking help for 162,000 issues ranging from debt and welfare benefits to energy problems, cost-of-living pressures and crisis support. The organisation launched its 2024-2025 Impact at its Annual General Meeting on Monday 01 December at Newbiggin Community Hub.[…]

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