Scotland welfare rights conference
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?
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.
This course is aimed at frontline advisers supporting claimants in work and for advisers supporting claimants back into work.
This two-morning course will enable you to assess which of a client’s debts should be given priority, in order to try to avoid the loss of their home, essential goods or services and imprison
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.
This one-day standard level online course looks at the universal credit (UC) rules that particularly affect ill or disabled people.
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.