Income Max Community Interest Company

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

Our IncomeMAX Entitlement Check service helps people that need personalised support to understand their benefit and tax credit entitlement and maximise income.

The IncomeMAX entitlement Check service is exclusively for customers of organisations that have commissioned the service.

IncomeMAX also provide information resources on our website, welfare benefits training and expertise.

IncomeMAX Partners

Lee Healey and LHTC

IncomeMAX was created by Lee Healey, a welfare benefits specialist with 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 the Director of LHTC, Lee is Welfare Benefits Advice Team Development Manager for DABD (uk) where he manages an established team of  benefits advisors. He also writes his own ‘Benefits Doctor’ column in national newspaper ‘The Mature Times’ and in Barking & Dagenham Newspaper ‘The News’. Lee also appears regularly on BBC2’s Working Lunch programme as their resident benefits expert and BBC Radio 5 Live commenting on benefits issues. Lee also features at the BBC Money Matters Roadshows as a benefits expert.

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 entitlement check service will help address the problems people have in understanding and claiming their correct benefit entitlement and will help people maximise their income by acting as a gateway to access for help and advice on all income related issues.”

London Warm Zone

London Warm Zones are the official London energy efficiency partner of IncomeMAX.

Warm Zones Limited, the parent company of London Warm Zone, is a not-for-profit company wholly owned by the charity National Energy Action.

London Warm Zone (LWZ) evolved from the Newham Warm Zone pilot scheme launch in 2001 and has been highly effective in helping householders improve the energy performance of their homes. The not-for-profit structure means that the LWZ approach is consistently based upon the best solution available, rather than maximising income at the expense of customer satisfaction.

The past year has seen an enormous growth in the spread of LWZ’s operations and its turnover is now in excess of £5 million per annum. LWZ is now working with 18 London local authorities, delivering a comprehensive set of programmes to improve the decency and energy efficiency of people’s homes. Alongside this, LWZ addresses fuel poverty by increasing household income through a highly successful income maximisation programme which to date has raised more than £1 million.

EDF Energy supports much of the work of LWZ with its Energy Efficiency Commitment (EEC) funding for vulnerable homes, and also finances the bulk of the organisation’s core costs. LWZ also uses EDF Energy’s substantial EEC funding to offer homeowners, regardless of their income, loft and cavity insulation at discounts of up to 75%. The work is installed by LWZ approved contractors.

Visit London Warm Zone’s Website www.londonwarmzones.co.uk to find out how easy it can be for people who own their home or rent it from a private landlord to make energy efficiency home improvements.