Claimants and custody
A period spent in prison – on remand or serving a sentence – can have far-reaching consequences for social security benefit entitlement, both for the person in prison and for their family.
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A period spent in prison – on remand or serving a sentence – can have far-reaching consequences for social security benefit entitlement, both for the person in prison and for their family.
This course looks at the universal credit (UC) rules that particularly affect ill or disabled people.
Attendance allowance (AA) is the main disability benefit for people who have reached pension age.
Social security law and tax credit law can change from day to day and advisers need to keep abreast of developments to advise their clients correctly.
Judicial review is an essential tool for challenging decisions that affect benefit and tax credit claimants where there is no right of appeal.
To successfully challenge a benefits decision understanding where it fits within this decision making machinery can make all the difference to questions such as:
Personal independence payment (PIP) is a disability welfare benefit run by the Department for Work and Pensions. It is aimed at those starting a PIP claim aged between 16 to pension age.
The welfare benefits system is complicated and confusing, both to claimants and those whose resp
This two-morning course is aimed at those supporting women fleeing from domestic abuse.
‘Kinship care’ is the situation in which a child goes to live with a member of their extended family or with a family friend. This course looks at benefit issues that arise for kinship carers.
Many young people who have been ‘looked after’ by the local authority are affected by special social security rules.
Social security law and tax credit law can change from day to day and advisers need to keep abreast of developments to advise their clients correctly.