Welfare Advice Service provides advice and assistance to make benefit claims,

Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre

We are offering benefit advice via telephone and email, this could be advising on what entitlements are available, how to access forms, how to make a fresh claim for benefits, what to do if they have problems with their benefit payments, how changes implemented by government affect their current claim, calculations of entitlements.

We can signpost on to other relevant services and for some services we can make a digital referral on claimants behalf

We are able to make referrals for food parcels, and advise on other essential services the person may be able to access during covid-19 isolation.

We are still form filling if clients need to get their PIP form submitted, and we are in contact with other partnerships working remotely throughout Belfast.

Welfare Advice Service can be contacted a number of ways; the main telephone number is 028 9096 1111 and it will be answered and a message taken and passed on to relevant adviser, adviser will then contact client in due course.

Welfare Advice Service can be contacted by email: Joanne.Farrell@burc.org, adviser will respond to any benefit enquiries sent through this

Welfare Advice Service can be contacted through social platforms such as Twitter or Facebook and these links and many others may be accessed by visiting www.burc.org website, the website is frequently updated with announcements and  events happening digitally