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.
Event on
6 May 2025
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Students and benefits - an update
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
Event on
29 May 2025
Also on
20 Nov 2025
Universal credit - work capability assessment and disability rules
This two-morning, standard level online course provides an overview of the universal credit (UC) rules for ill and disabled claimants.
Event on
16 Jun 2025
Also on
19 Nov 2025, 23 Mar 2026
Universal credit - work capability case law and best practice
This course looks in detail at some of the more difficult advice topics around the work capability assessment (WCA). Aimed at advisers with a good background knowledge of the WCA rules, the course focuses on the ‘substantial risk’ criteria and how to apply them to clients who do not fit into point-scoring categories. The course also looks at how to optimise WCA challenges at the revision and appeal stages by taking a technical approach, based on identifying the relevant regulations and supporting case law.
Event on
1 Jul 2025
Also on
8 Dec 2025, 16 Mar 2026
Universal credit - students
This one-morning course gives a practical overview of the universal credit rules for further and higher education students.
Event on
3 Jul 2025
Also on
24 Nov 2025, 10 Mar 2026
Carers' benefits
This practical one-morning course will give advisers more confidence about the different forms of support for carers in the benefits system. With a focus on carers’ allowance and the carer element of universal credit, the course explains which claimants can get these, how much they are worth, and how the two interact. The course also looks at carer premiums and additions in other benefits.
Event on
7 Jul 2025
Also on
5 Feb 2026
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
Limited capability for work in universal credit
This course looks at how limited capability for work rules affect universal credit (UC). The outcome of the work capability assessment has a crucial role in determining claimants’ work-related requirements as well as the amount of money they get.
Event on
13 Nov 2025
Also on
26 Feb 2026
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
Carer support payment
Carer support payment is a new Scottish benefit which has replaced carer’s allowance in Scotland.
Event on
12 Mar 2026