SB16 – A guide to The Social Fund (April 2008)
Contents
- About this guide
- This guide and the law
- How to contact us
- Introduction
- Community Care Grants
- Who can get a Community Care Grant?
- Needs which are not covered by a Community Care Grant
- Leaving an establishment in which you received care
- Help to stay in the community
- If you and your family are under exceptional pressure
- Caring for a prisoner or young offender on release on temporary licence
- Setting up home as part of a planned resettlement programme
- Expenses for certain journeys
- What a Community Care Grant covers
- Priorities for Community Care Grants
- Community Care Grants - How much?
- How to apply for Community Care Grants
- What happens when a decision is made
- How you are paid your Community Care Grant
- Effects of Community Care Grants on other benefits
- If you are dissatisfied with the decision on your application
- Budgeting Loans
- Who can get a Budgeting Loan?
- Needs covered by a Budgeting Loan
- How applications for Budgeting Loans are decided
- Repaying the Budgeting Loan
- How to apply for a Budgeting Loan
- How you are paid your Budgeting Loan
- If your application for a Budgeting Loan is refused
- Effects of Budgeting Loans on other benefits
- Taking on further loans
- Crisis Loans
- If you have recently applied for a Crisis Loan or a Community Care Grant
- Who can apply for a Crisis Loan
- If you have any other means of help
- Needs which are not covered by a Crisis Loan
- What Crisis Loans cover
- Priorities for Crisis Loans
- Reviews
- Crisis Loans - How much?
- Repaying the Crisis Loan
- How to apply for a Crisis Loan
- How you will be paid your Crisis Loan
- If your application for a Crisis Loan is refused
- Further Loans
- Reviews
- Sure Start Maternity Grants
- Funeral Payments
- Cold Weather Payments
- Winter Fuel Payments
- Further information