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Universal credit - complex needs status
Benefits overview
This two-morning course provides an overview of the benefits system and examines how the system fits together.
Mental health and benefits
This course provides a practical and tactical look at working with people experiencing poor mental health to help secure full entitlement to benefits and avoid some of the pitfalls of the system.
Kinship carers and the benefits system
‘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.
Universal credit - an introduction
Universal credit is now the only working age, means-tested benefit for people in Scotland and throughout the UK.
Pension-age claimants – income maximisation
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.
Payments for children in Scotland
This course gives you an overview of benefit support for families in Scotland from pregnancy to school-leaving age.