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?
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
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
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.
This course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.
Many advisers work with students in both further and higher education.
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.