USEFUL CONTACTS
Useful websites:
www.ondivorce.co.uk
www.advicenow.org.uk
www.divorceaid.co.uk
www.gov.uk/separation-divorce
Advice Now Guides:
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Advice Now Guide to Divorce and Separation:
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-divorce-or-dissolution-civil-partnership
A Survival Guide to Living Together and Breaking Up
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-living-together-and-breaking
A Survival Guide to Sorting Out Child Arrangements
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-sorting-out-child-arrangements
A Survival Guide to Family Mediation
https://www.advicenow.org.uk/guides/survival-guide-family-mediation
Welfare Benefits:
To calculate entitlement to benefits:
General Benefits enquiries
Jobcentre Plus – redirects claimants to helplines on specific benefits
You can ring them on 0800 055 6688 or Disability Living
Allowance/Attendance Allowance 0845 712 3456
Child Maintenance:
Service is available from Child Maintenance Options, www.cmoptions.org. Click on ‘Maintenance calculator’, under the heading ‘Tools and leaflets’ to work out your assessment. You can ring them on 0800 988 0988.
Pensions Forecast:
Future Pension Centre – provides forecast of future state pension
0845 300 0168 or get form BR19 on www.gov.uk/future-pension-centre
Tax Credits Queries:
0345 300 3900
www.hmrc.gov.uk/tools/progress-tool/tax-credits.htm
Income Tax Queries:
www.hmrc.gov.uk/tools/progress-tool/employee.htm
Money Advice Service:
0300 500 5000 / www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk
– offers free of charge financial advice.
Contact Centres for Non Resident Parents:
National Association of Child Contact Centres