Housing, Welfare Benefits and Employment Support
Our new EU citizens’ Rights Service can offer you free online help and advice, on a number of topics.
At present, the service is only available to EU citizens living in Edinburgh, and is offered in Polish and Spanish. We hope to expand the number of languages offered, and reach a wider area, if we can obtain funding for that.
The topics that we cover at present are:
Housing and homelessness
Welfare benefits
Employment
This service is run with the assistance of funding from the National Lottery Community Fund
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What kind of help can we provide?
- Assistance in completing application forms for benefits or housing
- Explaining your rights as an EU citizen to access a public service
- Advising and helping you in challenging decisions
- Contacting council or DWP departments on your behalf
- Raising queries with national consulates in Scotland
PLEASE NOTE. We are not able to represent you in courts and tribunals, but we can provide you with details of organisations that can help you.
We also take referrals from a number of partner organisations with which we work.
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Here are links to a number of sources of information on these topics:
- Your rights to get help from the local council if you are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless
- Special rules for public sector (councils and housing associations) and private tenants during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Applying to the Housing and Property Chamber First Tier Tribunal for Scotland
- Homelessness
The websites of Citizens Advice Scotland and the Civil Legal Assistance Office also have useful information around these issues.
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