The MCC consumer-facing Guide to welfare benefits for older adults

Paying subscribers to Care Box get full access to the guide, which they can download, copy and email to as many clients and colleagues within their firm as they wish.

The cost-of-living crisis has brought into sharp focus the importance of Social Security Benefits for many people in the UK. Despite this, evidence suggests that cash-strapped pensioners are continuing to miss out on thousands of pounds of extra income because they are not claiming all that they are entitled to in terms of both means-tested and non-means-tested State Benefits. This guide is designed to help older people (or their families) wherever they live in the UK, to understand how the benefit system works, what key benefits are available, what the eligibility criteria are, and how to access whatever benefits they may be entitled to.

Please note, the sample version below includes just a selection of pages from the guide and is  designed to give a flavour of the information it holds.

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Many thanks to Just Group for their support in the production of this guide.