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.
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 course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.
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.
Older people commonly do not claim all that they are entitled to.
Many advisers work with students in both further and higher education.
This course provides an introduction to benefits delivered by Social Security Scotland.
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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.