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Welfare advice and financial support

  • Cost of living support
  • Check if you're eligible for Pension Credit
  • Managing energy bills and heating your home
  • How our Financial Inclusion team can help
  • Crisis funding and emergency help
  • Other help available

Household bills advice

  • Help with your rent payments
  • Local rent advice surgeries
  • Help with your Council Tax payments
  • Food resources in East Lothian
  • Social tariffs - cheaper broadband and phone packages
  • Dealing with debt
  • Advice if you're managing affairs for someone else

Help to boost your income

  • Bereavement benefits
  • Carer benefits
  • Children and family benefits
  • Disability benefits
  • Pensioners
  • Social Security Scotland benefits
  • Universal Credit
  • Help if you've been affected by the Benefit Cap

Grants and other support

  • Free school meals and clothing grants
  • Meals at home service
  • Free period products
  • Grants available from British Gas Energy Trust to clear gas and electric debts
  • Turn2us Grants

Health related support

  • Macmillan welfare rights service
  • Improving the cancer journey
  • Help to apply for a Blue Badge
  • Mental Health Care When It Counts (CWIC)
  • Access to a Better Life in East Lothian
Boost your income. The cost of living is affecting us all. Let's make sure you get all the financial support you're entitled to. www.eastlothian.gov.uk/boost

Boost your income

If you’re worried about money or heating your home, don’t assume you’re receiving everything you’re entitled to. Find out what help is available in our cost of living guide.

Read more about this article. Boost your income
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Benefits calculator

Check you're getting all the benefits and help you're entitled to. Get an estimate with our free online benefits calculator.

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Check if you're eligible for Pension Credit

Pension Credit could give you around £3,900 a year, on average, to help with your living costs if you’re over state pension age and on a low income. Plus, you could get the Pension Age Winter Heating Payment. Find out more or apply.

Read more about this article. Check if you're eligible for Pension Credit

Financial Inclusion team

East Lothian Council, Haddington, EH41 3HA

Telephone: 01620 827827

Send Email to financialinclusion@eastlothian.gov.uk

Financial Support Team

East Lothian Council, PO Box 13261, Haddington, EH41 3HA

Telephone: 01620 827730

Send Email to financialsupport@eastlothian.gov.uk

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