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Income maximisation for older people

Older people commonly do not claim all that they are entitled to. This course provides an introduction to pension credit and aims to help you with effective benefit checks to maximise income.

Benefit essentials with Disability Rights UK and CPAG

Designed for those new to benefits advice work, this two-morning online course provides an essential introduction to the benefits system.

Help us imagine a better future

4.2 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. They are isolated and excluded.

Attendance allowance - an introduction

Attendance allowance (AA) is the main disability benefit for people who have reached pension age.

Work capability assessment - exceptional opportunities

The work capability assessment (WCA) test dominates employment support allowance (ESA) and universal credit (UC) in relation to sick claimants.

Understanding decisions, revisions and supersessions

The benefits system is a decisions-based system. This course gives advisers the technical understanding needed to successfully navigate it, by explaining in detail the rules about how a decision can be made and then changed.

Universal credit

This training course focuses on universal credit (UC), the centre piece of the Government’s welfare reform programme.

Challenging personal independence payment decisions

This training course looks at how to ensure that a PIP revision or appeal should work to the best advantage of claimants.

Personal independence payment - claims to decisions

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.

Introduction to welfare benefits

The welfare benefits system is complicated and confusing, both to claimants and those whose responsibility it is to support them. Claimants are largely expected to know their rights, although it is clear that most do not. Thousands of millions of pounds are under claimed every year leading to severe hardship, including rent arrears and other indebtedness. The cost-of-living crisis has only made matters worse. It is therefore vital that new advisers become aware of what the benefits system has to offer.

Income maximisation for older people

Older people commonly do not claim all that they are entitled to.

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