What You Need to Know: Welfare Benefits

Melanie Johnson

Benefits Advisor, Irwin Mitchelle Solicitors

Melanie is a Welfare Benefits Advisor based in our Leeds office.  She has over 10 years experience of working within the welfare benefits field hence her wealth of knowledge and experience.

Her role at Irwin Mitchell encompasses advising clients who are in difficult cicumstances with regards potential entitlements to benefits and carrying out better off calculations to ensure clients are in reciept of all benefits they are entitled to.  She can support clients by liaising with the DWP who can be notoriously difficult and also draft mandatory reconsiderations and prepare and represent with appeals at tribunals.  Melanie has a commendable track record with winning appeals,  Her background includes supporting families with disabled children which included benfits work

Melanie says “the most rewarding part of my role is successfully challenging the DWP when it has made errors, to ensure that clients receive the benefits they are entitled to in order to provide for their long term future”