Welfare Rights Advice
Barking and Dagenham
Financial/Welfare Benefits and Other Help
If you require any advice or support a number organisation in Barking and Dagenham can provide welfare benefit advice and are Community Legal Service registered. Our aim is to actively promote the take-up of benefits to ensure that residents are aware of their rights to welfare benefits.
For more information on welfare benefits and services you may be able to get and how to apply, including forms you can download, please visit the Department for Work and Pensions website.
This has an A to Z list of all the benefits you may be able to get.
Directgov - Money, Tax and Benefits also offers online support and advice for a range of benefits.
Age Concern Barking and Dagenham
- Information, Advice and Advocacy service for older people
- Help with form filling and advice on welfare benefits
- Home visiting service available
- Monday to Friday, 9am - 4.30pm
The Park Centre, Rectory Road, Dagenham, RM10 7SA
Tel: 020 8270 4998
Age Concern Barking and Dagenham website|
Thameside Community Support at Thames View Advice Centre
- Advice on welfare benefits, form filling, representation at Tribunal by referral
- Open to everyone
- Home visits: Thames ward residents only
- Monday to Friday, 9.30am - 4pm
Bastable Avenue, Thames View Estate, Barking, IG11 0NG
Telephone enquiries: 020 8594 9208 (9.30am - 2.30pm every day)
Barking Aid Support and Information Services (BASIS)
- General Advice given on all issues as well as welfare benefits advice
- Also debt counselling / workshops available
- Home visits by appointment for residents of Gascoigne ward
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am - 12pm and Wednesday, 1pm - 3pm
128 St Mary's Parade, Barking, IG11 7TF
Tel: 020 8591 9855
Barking and Dagenham Citizens Advice Bureau
- Can help people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice
- No appointment necessary
- Home visits are by arrangement
- Telephone advice available Monday to Friday
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, 10am - 1pm
- Telephone advice only on Wednesday, 10am - 1pm
55 Ripple Road, Barking, IG11 7NT
Tel: 020 8594 6717
Citizen Advice Bureaus web page|
- For debt enquiries only, on Tuesday and Thursday between 2pm - 4pm. Debt Line: 020 8594 1430
Carers of Barking and Dagenham
- Support, information and advice service for people who care for someone, normally a close friend or relative, who have a disability or a long term illness
- Welfare benefits advice and debt advice also available
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 9am - 5pm and Tuesday, 9am - 7.30pm
15 Althorne Way, Dagenham, RM10 7AY
Tel: 020 8593 4422
Carers of Barking and Dagenham website|
Disablement Association of Barking and Dagenham Benefits Advice Team
- The Disablement Association of Barking and Dagenham Benefits Advice Team offer a free, independent and confidential benefits advice service for residents of Barking and Dagenham, delivered by an experienced team of advisers
- Services include telephone advice, form filling, advocacy, help with challenging decisions and appeal representation
- Home and office appointments are available
- Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm
51 Ripple Road, Barking, IG11 7NT
Tel: 020 8220 5265
Disablement Information Advice Line
- Advice is provided by disabled people on any aspect of disability to disabled people, their carers, families and professionals
- Information is also available on general benefit assessments, Income Support, Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance and Incapacity
- Home visits can be provided by appointment
- Monday to Thursday, 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Friday telephone service, 10am - 2pm
St George's Centre, St George's Road, Dagenham, RM9 5AY
Tel: 020 8595 8181
Volunteer Bureau
- Advice is provided on welfare benefits referrals
- Appointments needed for filling
- Home visits are by arrangement
- Monday to Thursday, 10am - 4pm and Friday, 10am - 3pm
St George's Centre, St George's Road, Dagenham, RM9 5AY
Tel: 020 8227 5463
Parents of Autistic Children Together (PACT)
- Information and Support for families with children on Autistic Spectrum
- Also Welfare Benefits advice
- Monday to Friday, 9am - 4.30pm
428 Gale Street, Dagenham, RM9 4NU
Tel: 020 8220 0099
The Pension Service
- Advice and support is available if you are 60 and over and would like to find out more about your benefit entitlement
Tel: 0845 606 0265
If you are under 60 telephone Job Centre Plus on: 01708 774 000.
If you would like the information provided on this page on audio tape or large print, please contact 020 8227 2411.
