A MOBILE benefits advice centre will be open for business in Warrington town centre from Monday, February 15 to Friday, February 19.
The “benefits bus” will be open from 10am to 3pm daily, outside Warrington Market, offering advice to local people who believe they are entitled to benefits.
Even people who have never been entitled to claim any benefits before may find it worth finding out what they are entitled to – especially if their circumstances have changed recently.
Every year millions of pounds of benefit go unclaimed across the UK – and local people could be entitled to some of it.
No appointment necessary to use the benefits bus which is equipped with disabled access, a private interview room and satellite and internet access which allows for immediate benefit estimates to be made.
The benefits bus has been in operation for four years across the region and is proving very successful. The last visit to Warrington in October led to benefit payments of more than £86,000 and one local resident who used the service gained more than £6,500 in unclaimed benefits.
A MOBILE benefits advice centre will be open for business in Warrington
town centre from Monday, February 15 to Friday, February 19.
The benefits bus is back
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Gary Skentelbery
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Should we really be spending money advising people who are too stupid to help themselves? Benefits are available – if you don’t claim them it is nobody’s fault but your own
and the council appear to be advertyising how to save paying council tax as well!!!
It is very important to make people aware to what they are entitled to and how they can get it. If it’s there for giving, it’s theirs for taking.
Then we should also have a bus going round which advises hard working, tax paying, non benefit claiming residents how to pay less tax!
No they are not too stupid….. its mainly for immigrants .. there just not sure what they can get for their 8 kids 4 goats and a donkey
Baz, the information you need is also on the bus, but you may not qualify as you need to be hardworking!.