Get Advice

The Linkwide Advice Team can help you with:

Money Advice
Identifying and claiming any benefits which you are entitled to.
Providing you with "Better-off Calculations" for going back to work, etc.
Appeals and disputes against Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and local authority decisions, e.g., being found fit for work, Job Seekers Allowance sanctions, Housing Benefits overpayments and refused or lapsed claims.
Setting up or changing existing repayment arrangements with the DWP, your local authority or Link as appropriate.
Advice on any matters with regards to your welfare.
Signposting your referral to appropriate orginisations.

We also offer a dedicated service for the above specifically for the over 60's called the Older Persons Advice Project (OPAP).

If you would like The Advice Team's help with any matter please contact us by:

Completing one of the online referral forms:
- OPAP Referral form if you are 60 or over
- Referral Form for all other customers

OPAP Referral Form

Please complete as many fields as you can in the form below. Fields marked * are required.

Linkwide Referral Form

Please complete as many fields as you can in the form below. Fields marked * are required.

Calling us: 01324 417 174 (Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm)
Faxing us : 01324 417 189
Emailing us: welfarerights@linkhaltd.co.uk
Writing to us at

Watling House
Callendar Business Park
Falkirk
FK1 1XR

ADVICE TEAM

Rhona Penman, Advice Team Leader

Lisa Robertson, Welfare Rights Officer

Elizabeth Pope, Welfare Rights Officer

Karen Baird, Welfare Rights Officer

Carey Sinclair, Welfare Rights Assistant.

Ruth McIntosh , Welfare Rights Officer (OPAP)

Karen Auld, Money Advice Officer

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Page last updated on Wednesday, 23 July 2008