Changing decisions - Scottish benefits
When a Scottish benefit is refused, an award is wrong or there is an overpayment, what steps can you take to put things right?
Event on
26 Aug 2025
Also on
3 Dec 2025
Courses
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Appeals to the Upper Tribunal
This course is essential for welfare rights advisers in Scotland who want to challenge decisions of the First-tier Tribunal effectively.
Event on
9 Sep 2025
Carer support payment
Carer support payment is a new Scottish benefit which replaces carer’s allowance in Scotland. This course will update you on the transfer from carer’s allowance to carer support payment.
Event on
12 Mar 2026
Challenging personal independence payment decisions
This training course looks at how to ensure that a PIP revision or appeal should work to the best advantage of claimants.
Challenging work capability assessment decisions
This online training course looks at how best to optimise WCA challenges.
Introduction to welfare benefits
The welfare benefits system is complicated and confusing, both to claimants and those whose resp
Limited capability for work in universal credit
This half-day standard level online course looks at how limited capability for work rules affect UC.
Personal independence payment - claims to decisions
Personal independence payment (PIP) is a disability welfare benefit run by the Department for Work and Pensions. It is aimed at those starting a PIP claim aged between 16 to pension age.
Scottish social security - an introduction
This course provides an introduction to benefits delivered by Social Security Scotland.
Understanding decisions, revisions and supersessions
The benefits system is a decisions-based system. This course gives advisers the technical understanding needed to successfully navigate it, by explaining in detail the rules about how a decision can be made and then changed.