Get advice

General advice

Phone: 0300 330 2182 or 0800 144 88 48

Textphone: 0800 144 88 84

For help claiming Universal Credit

Phone: 0800 144 8 444

Textphone: 18001 0800 144 8 444

You can phone us during our opening hours. We are now part of the Adviceline group. This means that more of your calls will be answered and you will find it easier to access telephone advice.

We will normally spend about 10 minutes finding out about your problem and planning how we can help you. We are often able to help by sending you a leaflet or details of other organisations that deal specifically with the type of issue that you have, or by directing you to online advice.

If the situation is urgent or very complex we may arrange for a caseworker to call you back. Please remember to have any relevant paperwork asked for by our assessor.