'Complex needs' status for UC claimants
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This course is aimed at frontline advisers supporting claimants in work and for advisers supporting claimants back into work.
Universal credit (UC) changes all the time, as the law is updated, tribunals and courts interpret the law, and it is implemented in practice.
This course looks at how limited capability for work rules affect universal credit (UC).
This course is for people who want to learn how to use QBC (the Quick Benefits Calculator) effectively and confidently.
The course covers:
If you need to get a universal credit or other DWP benefit decision changed, this course aims to gives you the essential knowledge to do it.
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.
Benefit may be overpaid for many reasons and recovery often leaves people in hardship.
This course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.
Universal credit is the main working age, means-tested benefit for people in Scotland and throughout the UK.