Financial help
We can help you deal with the financial impact of cancer.
Having cancer can be expensive in ways you wouldn't expect, such as the cost of prescriptions, a special diet, child care or travel to hospital. However, there are ways to ease the financial worries.
Help available
If you are struggling to cope with the financial effect of cancer, remember that there is help available that you may be eligible for. Follow the links below to information relevant to you (the information applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Other ways Macmillan can help
Macmillan benefits booklet 'Help with the cost of cancer'
Macmillan's guide to benefits and financial help for people affected by cancer contains information about the wide range of financial help available.
Download 'Help with the cost of cancer' [PDF, 990kb]
Download 'Help with the cost of cancer' Northern Ireland Edition [PDF, 990kb]
Download 'Help with the cost of cancer' Welsh Edition [PDF, 990kb]
To order a paper copy of 'Help with the Cost of Cancer' please contact 0800 500 800. This phone service can also provide you with details of local benefits advice services in your area.
If you're affected by cancer, we can offer specialist advice on how to ease your financial worries. Financial help is available in the form of welfare benefits, tax credits, grants and loans, and help from your local authority. You can contact any of these services directly and speak to someone by telephone or face-to-face to discuss your entitlements.
If you or a member of your family has cancer, or you care for someone with cancer, this service can offer you advice and help to access benefits and other kinds of financial support.
If you have cancer a health care professional can apply for a grant for you, to help meet some of the extra costs cancer can bring.
Our benefits awareness e-learning resource is for those who work with people affected by cancer, and aims to raise awareness of the impact that cancer can have on the lifestyles of those affected by cancer, and of the benefits and financial help available to them. It is aimed primarily at health and social care professionals, who are not benefit advisers, to help them identify cases where referrals to benefits advisers might be appropriate. You can access this e-learning resource via our
Learn Zone.
Search UK Advice Finder for contact details of organisations throughout the UK that provide advice on benefits and financial help, debt, and consumer issues.
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