Students and benefits - an update
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
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
Many young people who have been ‘looked after’ by the local authority are affected by special social security rules.
This two-morning course is aimed at those supporting women fleeing from domestic abuse.
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.
Disability living allowance (DLA) is the main way of meeting the additional needs of many children, yet it is under-claimed and can be hard to understand.
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.
‘Kinship care’ is the situation in which a child goes to live with a member of their extended family or with a family friend. This course looks at benefit issues that arise for kinship carers.