Disability Rights Handbook, 2023/24

Fully updated for 2023/24. the handbook is a comprehensive guide to benefits and services for disabled people. It provides in-depth guidance on the benefits system, explains how social care operates around the UK and includes information about specialist services and resources.

The handbook provides in-depth information and invaluable guidance on the benefits system and social care services, it covers:

Your right to benefits

• For anyone with an illness, injury or disability
• For carers, children and young people
• For people in education or work, looking for work, not in work or in retirement
• For people injured at work or serving in the Armed Forces
• Eligibility requirements and how to make a claim
• Challenging decisions; how to appeal

Your right to care and support

• The eligibility criteria for people needing care and support
• Assessments, budgets and ways of paying for care
• Challenging eligibility and funding decisions
• Local authority duties
• Support for carers