SB16 – A guide to The Social Fund (April 2013)

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Contents

• About this guide
• This guide and the law
• How to contact us
• Introduction
  • The Social Fund
  • How decisions are made
  • The Social Fund Budget  
• 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
• Reviews
  • Further independent review
  • How to apply for a Social Fund Inspector’s review
• Sure Start Maternity Grants
  • Who can get Sure Start Maternity Grants?
  • If you have any savings
  • How Sure Start Maternity Grants are paid
  • Effect on other benefits
  • How to claim
  • When to claim
  • What information do I need to provide?
  • Disputes and appeals
• Funeral Payments
  • Who can get a Funeral Payment?
  • Who should claim?
  • What the Funeral Payment covers
  • How to claim
  • When to claim
  • How Funeral Payments are made
  • Effect on other benefits
  • Repayment of the Funeral Payment
  • Disputes and appeals
• Cold Weather Payments
  • Who can get Cold Weather Payments?
  • When are Cold Weather Payments made?
  • How are Cold Weather Payments made?
  • Effects on other benefits
  • How to claim
  • Disputes and appeals
• Winter Fuel Payments
  • Who can get Winter Fuel Payments?
  • Do any savings you have affect the payment?
  • How to claim
  • When are payments made?
  • Disputes and appeals
• Further information
  • DWP and other leaflets
  • Other benefits available
  • Other sources of money
  • The Acts, Regulations and the Social Fund Guide

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