Current backlog

Please note: The Welfare Rights Service is currently processing an 8-9 weeks backlog of referrals. To ease this, remember there are other benefit advice services, please visit our We Can Help pages, for more information.

Please use this form to contact our Welfare Rights Team about:

  • Help to maximise benefit income
  • Support with an appeal
  • Tribunal preparation
  • Mandatory reconsideration 

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All information is processed in accordance with our organisational data protection policy (www.oldham.gov.uk/dataprotection). 

We never sell your data to third parties or use it for marketing purposes without your consent.