QBC - making the most of your calculator
About this course
This course is for people who want to learn how to use QBC (the Quick Benefits Calculator) effectively and confidently.
The course covers:
- Understanding screens, controls, menus and how to get in-calculator help
- Best practice when entering information
- Universal credit calculations, including changing the transitional element
- Legacy benefit calculations
- Tax credit calculations
- ‘What if’ calculations
- Saving, sending and changing cases
- An overview of advanced feature
This standard level course is suitable for advisers who already have a good understanding of legacy benefits, tax credits and universal credit. You do not need to have had experience of using QBC, though participants need to have a licenced copy of the most recent QBC calculator (as at the date of the course) already installed on their computer to allow them to carry out calculations during the course.
Please note that you should attend this face-to-face course with your laptop, so that you can practice in real time. If you attend without a laptop, you may be able to share, but we cannot guarantee this. Importantly, without your own laptop you will not get practice at configuring the calculator and inputting data.