Students and benefits - an update
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
Many young people who have been ‘looked after’ by the local authority are affected by special social security rules.
Older people commonly do not claim all that they are entitled to.
This two-morning course is aimed at those supporting women fleeing from domestic abuse.
This course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.
Disability living allowance (DLA) is the main way of meeting the additional needs of many children, yet it is under-claimed and can be hard to understand.
Older people commonly do not claim all that they are entitled to.
Pension age disability payment (PADP) is replacing attendance allowance as the main disability benefit for people living in Scotland who have reached pension age.
‘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 advisers work with students in both further and higher education.