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Charlie Callanan
Charlie Callanan is a welfare rights expert, trainer and adviser, and a regular contributor to Community Living.
![At the health centre: GPs normally provide fit notes but this task may be passed to private companies](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_0162h-640x400.jpg)
![Typing on a laptop in bed](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Working_from_Bed_-_A_Man_Works_from_Home_with_a_Laptop_in_Bed-640x400.jpg)
Ability to work in focus
![April calendar with deadline highlighted](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/P1240432-640x400.jpg)
Mounting a challenge
![Making Work Pay - sign in window](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/p7-credit-Sean-Kelly-640x400.jpg)
Consequences of work
![Chancellor Jeremy Hunt](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/p7-Hunt_-CREDIT-Zara-FarrarHM-Treasury-640x400.png)
Work is the priority
![Carers Allowance claim form](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Payments-for-caring-640x400.jpg)
Payments for caring
![Claire Coutinho MP](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Claire-Coutinho-MP-540x400.jpg)
Easier with a light touch
![Gas meter](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Help-at-a-time-of-financial-crisis-640x400.jpg)
Help at a time of financial crisis
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Universal-Credit-640x400.jpg)
Pitfalls of shift to universal credit
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/coffey-640x400.jpg)
Claimants who need safeguarding
![Piggybank](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_8652LR-640x400.jpg)
Help to pay the winter fuel bills
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/money-640x400.jpg)
Help to claim and manage money
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
Deductions made from benefits
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Medical-assessments-at-a-distance.jpg)
Medical assessments at a distance
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Support under Covid-19: an update
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
Financial help at a time of Covid-19
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
A complex move to Universal Credit
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
The rough realities of austerity
![Making work pay sign](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_7846LR-2-640x400.jpg)
How to complain about the DWP
![£20 notes](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_7654LR-640x400.jpg)
Meet the conditions to avoid cuts
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
Universal credit: progress and pitfalls
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
Untangling carer’s allowance
![](https://communitylivingmagazine.com/wp-content/themes/pentri_digitaltoolkit/img/cl-default.jpg)
Tribunals make PIP more available
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