We provide free advice on family and carer-related employment rights and in-work benefits. You can find our contact form below. We aim to get back to you with a response as soon as we can and within 10 working days. Depending on the urgency of your query, the response time may be shorter. We answer every query we receive. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days, please check in your spam or junk folder. strict time limits apply – usually within 3 months (3 months less 1 day) of the act that you wish to complain about. Please keep copies of all documents relevant to your situation in case you need to refer back to something, and in case you need to bring a claim at some point in the future.Client Charter which outlines what we will do for you; the standards of service you can expect; and the expected timescales. It also outlines what we need from you to enable us to meet our commitments. workers or employees on our helpline, to avoid any potential conflicts of interest and to meet the requirements of our funders.If you need advice on employment or benefit issues that are not family/carer-related, please contact your local Citizens Advice as they may be able to help. privacy policy and our complaints policy .
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We’re sorry, but we cannot help you. Unfortunately, we are only funded to advise parents, expectant parents and carers, and their advisers/ professionals (e.g. midwives, social workers). local Citizens Advice We’re sorry, we cannot help you. We are only able to advise workers or employees on our helpline. To avoid any potential conflicts of interest and to meet the requirements of our funders, we cannot advise you if you are an employer. You can ask your employee(s) to contact us instead. Are you contacting us for benefits advice or about an employment rights issue?* We can only answer queries about benefits advice at present. If your query is related to employment rights, please take a look at our website pages, try our telephone helpline (0300 012 0312 weekdays, 11am-2pm) or try this form again in a few days.We can only answer queries about employment rights at present. If your query is related to benefits advice, please take a look at our website pages, try our telephone helpline (0300 012 0312 weekdays, 11am-2pm) or try this form again in a few days.Country of Residence* The law sometimes differs depending on
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Are you contacting us to ask about benefits or financial support? (optional) We can give you more accurate advice if we know whether or not you are already receiving benefits/financial support.
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Can you please tell us what benefits you are already claiming, if any? (optional) If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details instead. It is important for us to know what you are already claiming so that we can give you more accurate advice. You can skip this question if you want.
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What best describes your employment status? (optional) If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please select their employment status instead.
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How long have you worked for your employer(s)? (optional) Please be as accurate as possible. Some employment rights are only available if you have worked for your employer for a certain amount of time. If you do a mix of employed and self-employed work, please give details. If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
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When is your expected date of childbirth / when do you expect to be matched with the child for adoption? Please be as accurate as possible. This helps us determine your rights to pay and leave. If you only know an approximate date, that’s helpful too. If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
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If you are based in England, can you tell us where you are contacting us from? If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
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Is your annual household income below £35,000? (Gross income, before tax) If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
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If you are in a couple: Is your annual household income below £41,000? (Gross income, before tax) If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
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Please estimate your pre-tax household income This information can help us better assist you with your enquiry, and allows us to better understand our service users and fund our work providing free legal guidance.
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Do you know, approximately, how many people work for your employer? If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
Please choose – Less than 10 employees Between 10-50 employees Between 50-250 employees More than 250 employees Unknown Not applicable – I am self-employed Not applicable – I am not employed
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Do you look after a disabled child or adult (not as a job)? If you are contacting us on behalf of someone else, please fill in their details (not your own).
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Do you consent to your data being used in accordance with our privacy policy?* Unfortunately we cannot process your enquiry without your agreement to our privacy policy (see below). If you prefer, you can call our helpline on 0300 012 0312. Would you be happy to be contacted by either our Policy or Marketing & Communications Teams to be used as a possible case study to help our work to achieve positive change for working parents and carers?* This could be on an anonymous basis.
Privacy Our email and telephone advice line are fully confidential. This means we won’t share any personal data which would identify you with anyone outside Working Families (except for our volunteers, and in some cases, auditors – who are also bound by confidentiality) without your permission. We do store a record of the advice we’ve given you on our internal database in accordance with GDPR for monitoring, funding, training and regulatory purposes. We will use your email and phone number provided to contact you with advice, information and to send a follow up email to understand the impact and outcome after you received our advice.
We use anonymised information from your query to create statistics, so we can understand who we are helping and what problems are most common. We may also share this information with our Policy and Communications teams to inform their work with government departments and funders, and through press releases and social media. We will never share data which might identify you personally, but your anonymised testimony will help us to work towards achieving positive change for working parents and carers.
By contacting us, you agree to us processing your information in this way. In exceptional circumstances we might have to break confidentiality, for example, when we feel a child might be at risk. If this happens, we’ll make all reasonable efforts to keep you informed of how we will act.
Read our privacy policy .
We answer every query we receive. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days, please check in your spam or junk folder.
strict time limits apply – usually within 3 months (3 months less 1 day) of the act that you wish to complain about. Please keep copies of all documents relevant to your situation in case you need to refer back to something, and in case you need to bring a claim at some point in the future. Phone This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
