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Our Print+ Subscription gives advisers the tools they need to provide expert advice and stay up to date with changes to the benefits system. 

Subscribers receive:

• A print copy of our flagship Welfare Benefits Handbook
• A subscription to the updating Welfare Rights Bulletin – six editions per year 

Welfare Benefits Handbook

The structure of this edition reflects that, in 2025/26, income support, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and tax credits are due to be fully replaced by universal credit. It covers transitional protection for people who get less money on universal credit and the special rules for pensioners who were getting tax credits.

Written by a team of over 20 experts, our flagship handbook is an essential guide to navigating the social security system. It equips you with the knowledge to maximise your clients' income, conduct thorough benefits checks, assist with claims, and confidently handle challenges when things go wrong.

What's new?

• The 2025/26 benefit and statutory payment rates
• Neonatal care pay – a new payment for parents whose babies have to stay in hospital after birth
• Three new Scottish benefits: pension age disability payment, Scottish adult disability living allowance and pension age heating payment

Updates to this edition

• Added information to help you work out who is entitled to pension credit. Plus extra information about calculating pension credit.
• Expanded information on who is entitled to savings credit (part of pension credit which some older pensioners can still get). Now that winter fuel payments are means-tested, this information is really important as even a small amount of pension credit ‘passports’ people to this, and other, extra help.
• Updated information on help with childcare costs in universal credit.
• The treatment of cryptocurrencies and social media income.
• The latest rules about the universal credit work-related requirements.
• Updated information on managed migration to universal credit and on the transitional element.
• Details on dealing with tax credit overpayments after the ending of the tax credits system.
• New PIP caselaw references added, especially regarding aids and assistance and how completing an activity in pain is probably not to an acceptable standard.
• Updated information about the PIP claims and assessment process.

Welfare Rights Bulletin

The bi-monthly Welfare Rights Bulletin is essential reading for welfare rights advisers, lawyers and anyone needing to keep up-to-date with welfare reform and other benefit and tax credit issues. In addition to a wide range of articles, the Bulletin also includes welfare rights news and summaries of new legislation, a digest of significant caselaw, and 'Q&A' case studies exploring problematic areas of law. The Bulletin also provides updates to the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

The Bulletin brings you full coverage of:

• social security reforms;
• right to reside issues;
• personal independence payment and the work capability assessment;
• tax credits;
• caselaw updates including CPAG test cases;
• issues for appeal tribunal representatives.