This is essential training if you are starting out as a welfare rights adviser in Scotland or need a good understanding of the benefits system.
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.
Child disability payment (CDP) is a Scottish benefit that helps with the extra costs of looking after a disabled child.
You do not need to be a benefit expert to make a difference. This course is for anyone working with people in Scotland on low incomes or with additional needs.
Adult disability payment (ADP) is a benefit for working-age adults in Scotland who have extra care needs or mobility difficulties because of a disability.
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.
Universal credit is the main working age, means-tested benefit for people in Scotland and throughout the UK.
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.
