Universal credit and students
This course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.
Event on
28 Oct 2025
Courses
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Students and benefits - an update
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
Event on
20 Nov 2025
Judicial review
Judicial review is an essential tool for challenging decisions that affect benefit and tax credit claimants where there is no right of appeal. This interactive course gives advisers a clear understanding of its potential use and helps them to develop their skills in challenging unlawful decision-making.
Event on
2 Dec 2025
Students and benefits - eligibility
Many advisers work with students in both further and higher education. This standard level course explains the different benefits that further and higher education students can claim, in particular universal credit.
Event on
3 Feb 2026
Changing decisions - universal credit
This course gives you the essential skills to get universal credit decisions changed. There are different ways to legally change a decision.
Event on
5 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.
Introduction to welfare benefits
The welfare benefits system is complicated and confusing, both to claimants and those whose responsibility it is to support them. Claimants are largely expected to know their rights, although it is clear that most do not. Thousands of millions of pounds are under claimed every year leading to severe hardship, including rent arrears and other indebtedness. The cost-of-living crisis has only made matters worse. It is therefore vital that new advisers become aware of what the benefits system has to offer.
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.
Students and benefits - the basics
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.
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.