Income Max Community Interest Company

IncomeMAX Managing Director Lee Healey

Income Max Community Interest Company is a UK social enterprise whose objective is to carry on activities which benefit the community and in particular (without limitation) to people that require help, advice and support to maximise their income.

The IncomeMAX logo is a registered trade mark.

IncomeMAX aims to:

• Enable people to understand their benefit and tax credit entitlement
• Support people to claim their full benefit and tax credit entitlement
• Enable people to access expert sources of advice and support for effective benefit and tax credit claims to be made
• Ensure people access additional grants, schemes and services as a direct result of correct benefit and tax credit entitlement being in place
• Empower people to access additional help and support for all other income related barriers and requirements
• Provide ongoing contact and support to people until income is fully maximized
• Provide expert 2nd tier information resources, support and training to organisations working with people that require income maximisation services

Lee Healey and IncomeMAX

IncomeMAX was created by Lee Healey, a welfare benefits expert with many, many years experience in the welfare rights advice sector through his LH Training & Consultancy company, which specialises in developing ideas, programmes and services that empower and enable people.

As well as being the Managing Director of IncomeMAX and LHTC, Lee is a respected media commentator on welfare, benefits, tax credits and the universal credit. 

Lee started his media career as the regular benefits expert on BBC 2′s Working Lunch programme and he now appears regularly on a range of BBC Television and Radio Programmes, including BBC Breakfast News, BBC News 24 (including the Your Money programme), Radio Five Live, Radio 4 (including the Money Box programme), Radio 2 and a host of local BBC radio stations. Lee also writes his own ‘Benefits Doctor’ column, an exclusive blog on the IncomeMAX website and answers questions for financial website Savvy Woman. 

In 2010 Lee was announced as a London Leader.

A self-confessed ‘benefits geek’ Lee can be found on Twitter @income_max or drop him a line at lee.healey@incomemax.org.uk

Lee says, “It is well known that millions of pounds of benefits and tax credits goes unclaimed every year by those who really need it most and this isn’t surprising given the level of complexity of the benefits system. We also know that the majority of people claiming benefits correctly do not actually understand their entitlement. I just do not think this is right.”

“I believe that the questions, what am I entitled to, how can I understand my entitlement and how can I maximise my income? can be best answered by an expert, independent advisor providing a personalised, confidential entitlement check. My IncomeMAX service will help address the problems people have in understanding and claiming their correct benefit entitlement and will help people maximise their income by providing access to expert help and advice on all income related issues.”