Other help if you are on a low income

Other Benefits you may want to think about

If you are Pension Age

• Pension Credit
• Attendance Allowance
• Carers Allowance

If you are Working Age

• Universal Credit
• Personal Independence Payments
• Carers Allowance

For everyone

• All state benefits
• Discretionary ESCC scheme
• Benefits calculators

Help with cost of living

• Cost of Living Hub
• Help for Households
• Cost of living payments
• ESCC support with living costs
• Energy grants
• Warm Spaces
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• Hailsham Community Fridge
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Organisations that may be able to help

• CAB
• Step Change
• HAARC
• Homeworks

Local Support Services

• Mind
• Mental Health Support Network
• Salvation Army
• Wellbeing Centres – Southdown Housing
• Work and Wellbeing – Southdown Housing
• ESCC local Care and Support
• East Sussex Hearing
• East Sussex Vision Support
• Age Concern
• Scope- disability charity

Other help

For Families

• Healthy Start for children – help to buy food and milk
• Sure start maternity grant
• Free early education
• Free school meals

For pensioners

• TV license
• Bus pass

For the disabled

• Bus pass
• Disabled parking badge