About Dove House

The Dove House Advice Centre provides advice and assistance to all members of the local community. All of our facilities aim to be user-friendly, accessible and comfortable.

To date, the Advice Centre deals with in excess of 19,000 inquiries per year. The following table gives details of the types of advice available at Dove House


Advice & Assistance is available on all of the following.

Benefits

  • Benefit Debts
  • Income Support
  • Means Tested Job Seekers
    Allowance
  • Non-Means Tested Job Seekers Allowance
  • Health Benefits
  • Social Fund
  • Housing Benefit
  • Rates Benefit
  • Incapacity Benefit
  • Disability Living Allowance
  • Invalid Care Allowance
  • Disablement Benefits (SDA, REA, ind.inj)
  • Pensions (Retirement & Occupational)
  • Child Benefits
  • One Parent Benefits
  • Maternity Benefits
  • Discrimination
  • And other Benefit Issues

    Utility

  • Utility Debts
  • Electricity
  • Telephone
  • Post Office
  • Gas
  • Media (TV, Radio, Press)
  • Discrimination
  • Other Utility Issues

    • Consumer

  • Consumer Debts
  • Goods/ Services
  • Credit/ Finance
  • Insurance
  • Discrimination
  • Other Consumer Issues

    Employment

  • Employment Debts
  • Terms/ Conditions
  • Self-Employment
  • Dismissal
  • Redundancy
  • Maternity Issues
  • Discrimination
  • Other Employment Issues

    Tax

  • Tax Debts
  • Income Tax
  • W/F/T/ Credit
  • D/F/T/ Credit
  • Discrimation
  • Other Tax Issues

    • Family

  • Relationship Debts
  • Children
  • Seperation/Divorce
  • Domestic Violence
  • Death/ Bereavement
  • Names (Birth Certificates)
  • Maintenance/ Child Support
  • Discrimination
  • Other Family Issues

    Housing

  • Housing Debts
  • Homelessness
  • Owner Occupied
  • Private Rented
  • Housing Executive
  • Environment
  • Neighnour Issues
  • Discrimination
  • Other Housing Issues

    Miscellaneous

  • Education
  • Community Care
  • Health
  • Immigration
  • Prisons
  • Cross Border Queries
  • Intimidation
  • Agriculture
  • Other Discrimation Queries
  • Other Miscellaneous Queries

    • about
    advice centre
    contact
    group projects:
    divert
    youth first
    women's group
    creche
    courses:
    ECDL
    basic computing
    maths
    welfare rights
    women only