Advice for disabled people

Possability People offers a wide range of support and advice to disabled people, their families, friends, and carers. The team are experts, and most of them have a lived experience of being disabled or living with a long term health condition. We support people who live in Brighton, Hove and East Sussex.

Open Tues, Weds, Thurs, 10 to 4

Our Advice Centre opening days have now changed to 3 days a week. You can call us on 01273 89 40 50 or email advice@possabilitypeople.org.uk

We can help with enquiries such as:

Disability benefits: Personal Independence Payment (PIP), ESA (Employment Support Allowance), Universal Credit (UC), Work Capability Assessments (WCA), Attendance Allowance (AA), Carers Allowance
Preparing for a welfare benefit medical assessment
Appealing your disability benefit decision
Some pension credit enquiries
Disabled Bus Pass applications
Blue Badge applications
Food bank referrals
Some Council Tax enquiries
Provide information on equipment, assistive technology, transport, accessible holidays, local support groups and services

We can support you to fill in the necessary paperwork to make disability benefit applications and processes less daunting. Need for our services is great and we therefore cannot always offer an appointment.

We can help you challenge benefit decisions you disagree with and in some cases, support you through the appeals process.

We also offer a specialist MS advice service, for anyone who is affected by MS in the Sussex Coastal Area. You can find out more about this service by calling us on 01273 894040.

If you want to know about money, or how to deal with debt, have a housing or legal issues then we can signpost you to the most appropriate service.

We signpost housing enquiries to Brighton and Hove City Council’s Housing Options Service or Homemove. If you have a housing emergency, contact Shelter or Brighton Housing Trust.

All the work we do is independent and in confidence. We have The Advice Quality Standard and work in partnership with other agencies to provide specialist knowledge when needed.

4,500enquiries were dealt with by our Advice Centre last year

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We know seeking advice can be hard, for all sorts of reasons. But take the next step, fill in the form, and we will email or call you back.

Thank you

Last year, the Advice Centre was funded by The Henry Smith Charity, Ernest Kleinwort Trust & Brighton & Hove City Council, to provide an advice service for disabled people