Students and benefits - the basics
This course provides a basic overview of social security benefits, and which further and higher education students in Scotland might be able to claim them.
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This course provides a basic overview of social security benefits, and which further and higher education students in Scotland might be able to claim them.
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.
The welfare benefits system is complicated and confusing, both to claimants and those whose resp
This two-morning course provides
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.
Pension age disability payment (PADP) is replacing attendance allowance as the main disability benefit for people living in Scotland who have reached pension age.
With the roll out of universal credit (UC) you will need to support your clients or tenants through the process of claiming and maintaining their award.
This two-morning course will enable you to assess which of a client’s debts should be given priority, in order to try to avoid the loss of their home, essential goods or services and imprison
Attendance allowance (AA) is the main disability benefit for people who have reached pension age.
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.