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Welfare Rights
Benefit Contacts
Useful Benefit Contact Numbers
- Middlesborough (New Claims to Income Support/Jobseekers Allowance) Tel: 0800 055
6688; Textphone 0800 0 23 48 88
- Jobcentreplus Kilmarnock (existing claims to Income Support/Jobseekers Allowance)Tel:
0845 6088632; Textphone: 0845 608 8551
- Social Fund Community Care Grants Tel: 0845 603 6967
- Crisis Loans Tel: 0800 032 7952
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Tel: 0845 608 8967
- Pensions Service- State Retirement Pension Tel: 0845 6060265
- Bereavement benefits for widows and widowers 0845 608 8602
- Carers Allowance Tel: 0845 608 4321
- Child Benefit Centre Tel: 0845 302 1444
- Tax Credits Tel: 0845 300 3900
- Disability Living Allowance/Attendance Allowance: Blackpool Tel: 08457 123 456
- Benefit Enquiry Line: 0800 882200
- Looking for a job: 0845 6060 234