DEBS Appeal

ESDA launches its appeal for 2010, the DEBS appeal

The Disability Element Benefits Service from East Sussex Disability Association - where every £1 donated makes £445 of difference to a disabled person living in East Sussex.

DEBS is a free form filling service which provides advisors for those individuals who are struggling to fill out the complex paperwork required to complete their claim forms.

We at ESDA have found this to be an essential service for local disabled people and their families and due to the economic downturn and increase in the revision of claims by statutory bodies we have seen demand for this service increase dramatically over the past 12 months. Unfortunately we can have anything up to a 4 week waiting time as we are unable to finance more advisors at this time.

All funding received will allow us to expand our service enabling us to meet with more disabled people and gain them the benefits that they are entitled to as quickly as possible.

Due to the success of our form filling service ( currently 100% of applications made have been successful ) every £1 donated to ESDA enables us to improve the life of a disabled person by £445.

Based upon previous claims submitted, we anticipate that the service will generate £18 million for disabled people in East Sussex that they would otherwise be unable to receive over the next three years

We are asking that those that can afford to donate a small contribution towards our appeal, even £5 would go a long way resulting in £2275 difference to disabled people in East Sussex.

To support us in this appeal:

www.justgiving.com/debsappeal