Income Maximisation 2006 to 2009

This is the multi agency Income Maximisation Strategy 2006 to 2009. The strategy aims to provide expert services for all with regards to welfare benefit and tax credit take-up and debt and money advice.

Our vision for Income Maximisation

We want to see Plymouth maximise the take-up of welfare benefits and tax credits and minimise problems with debt, for the benefit of individuals and the whole city, by becoming a place in which:

• partners from all sectors work well together in a co-ordinated and customer-focused way to provide services and initiatives which maximise income.
• quality assured, expert and professional income maximisation advice services are available from voluntary and statutory sector providers.
• community and voluntary sectors’ expertise and innovation is used to best effect to support and promote income maximisation.
• integrated city centre debt, welfare benefits and tax credit services are complemented by outreach, and appropriate location-based and neighbourhood services, prioritising neighbourhoods in greatest need.
• income maximisation services provide equality of access to our diverse communities taking account of age, disability, faith, gender, race and sexual orientation.
• benefits and tax credits help increase employment and also provide appropriate support for those who cannot work.
• the positive benefits of income maximisation in reducing poverty, stimulating the local economy, promoting well being and maximising government funding for Plymouth, are championed and understood.

By doing this, income maximisation will contribute to narrowing the gap between our most and least deprived neighbourhoods and in making Plymouth one of Europe’s finest, most vibrant waterfront cities where an outstanding quality of life is enjoyed by everyone through people becoming healthier, wealthier, safer and wiser.

Documents

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Income Maximisation Strategy 2006 to 2009 - developed by Plymouth City Council in partnership with other organisations to improve Income Maximisationin Plymouth. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 190KB