Courses

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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. 

Understanding decisions, revisions and supersessions

The benefits system is a decisions-based system. This course gives advisers the technical understanding needed to successfully navigate it, by explaining in detail the rules about how a decision can be made and then changed.

Universal credit

This training course focuses on universal credit (UC), the centre piece of the Government’s welfare reform programme.

Universal credit - managed migration

This course focuses on the transitional issues for claimants who are moving from employment and support allowance (ESA) to universal credit (UC). It is expected that all remaining claimants in Scotland will be moved to UC under the managed migration process during 2025.

Webinar: Managed migration - an update: “All over but the crying?”

In this online seminar, we give an update on managed migration, including: extensions and cancellations, the DWP’s ‘enhanced support journey’, the correct approach to overpayments of legacy benefits, how to tackle recurring issues for those migrating from ESA, and an in-depth look at SSWP v MJ [2025] UKUT 035 (AAC).