Challenging decisions - understanding decisions, revisions and supersessions (online)
To successfully challenge a benefits decision understanding where it fits within this decision making machinery can make all the difference to questions such as:
To successfully challenge a benefits decision understanding where it fits within this decision making machinery can make all the difference to questions such as:
This two day face-to-face training course gives a basic grounding in representing clients at the First-tier Tribunal.
2024 will be a critical election year. What difference could it make to the future of social security, the lives of low-income families and the work of frontline advisers?
This course is essential for anyone who wants to challenge decisions of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) effectively.
Entitlement to social security is determined by whether or not a claimant meets the legal rules relevant to the benefit in question. Similarly, the processes that must be followed.
Judicial review is an essential tool for challenging decisions that affect benefit and tax credit claimants where there is no right of appeal.
This course is essential for welfare rights advisers in Scotland who want to challenge decisions of the First-tier Tribunal effectively.
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.
Social security law and tax credit law can change from day to day and advisers need to keep abreast of developments to advise their clients correctly.
Social security law and tax credit law can change from day to day and advisers need to keep abreast of developments to advise their clients correctly.