Get benefits advice

One Lambeth Advice

One Lambeth Advice is a free advice service from Citizens Advice Merton and Lambeth. It will help you get the information and advice you need quickly.

One Lambeth Advice can offer information and advice about:

• Benefits
• Debt and money
• Work
• Housing
• Goods and services

You can talk to advisers over the phone, using web chat or by email. They will help you work out what you need to do next in your particular circumstances and this may result in:

• You being directed to another service
• Information being explained to you
• An appointment being made for further advice or casework with a member of the Lambeth Advice Network or another agency or service

Every Pound Counts

The Every Pound Counts scheme is a free benefits check and advice service for some Lambeth residents.

Every Pound Counts is available to the following Lambeth residents:

• people with disabilities
• people with sensory impairments
• people experiencing long term ill health
• carers
• people caring for a disabled child or a child with significant long term ill health, including children with long term developmental conditions and behavioural conditions.
• people receiving treatment support from Lambeth Drug and Alcohol Treatment services

Referrals

Referrals can be made by staff working in the following service areas:

• social care
• health
• housing

• organisations commissioned by Lambeth Council to provide support for vulnerable Lambeth residents needing help to claim additional benefit entitlement.

• Every Pound Counts Referral Form

• Every Pound Counts Referral Form for Health Services