Personal Independence
Payment – 22 May 2013
Standard level
This new one-day course will
give an introduction to personal independence payment (PIP), the new benefit
which will start replacing DLA for working-age people in 2013.
The course will cover:
·
Who is entitled
to PIP
·
The disability
test
·
Claiming PIP and
getting paid
·
Stays in hospital
or residential care
·
Challenging PIP
decisions
It is suitable for advisers
with a working knowledge of existing sickness and disability benefits.
Students and benefits – an
update – 30 May 2013
Experienced level
Make sure you know what
benefit changes are in the pipeline and likely to affect students. Welfare
reform is changing the face of our benefits system with many changes made and
others still to come.
This half-day course focuses
on recent developments and forthcoming changes in benefits and tax credits
aimed specifically at students, and the impact more general changes might have
on students.
The course includes:
·
An overview of
universal credit for students
·
Personal
independence payment - replacing DLA from 2013
·
Housing benefit
changes and reductions
·
Changes in
student support – impact on benefits and tax credits
·
Other changes in
legislation and guidance
The course is aimed at
advisers with a good working knowledge of the benefits and tax credits systems
as they apply to students.
Universal Credit – 4 September
2013
The introduction of
universal credit from October 2013 fundamentally changes the system of benefits
and tax credits. This one-day course aims to equip advisers to advise clients
on eligibility and entitlement to universal credit. It examines, through
practical exercises and case studies how the new benefit works and through
discussion gives you an opportunity to consider the likely effect on different
groups of claimants.
Topics covered include:
·
The aims of
universal credit
·
How it will be
introduced
·
Who can get
universal credit
·
Amounts and how
to calculate awards
·
Claims, payments
and appeals
·
Conditionality
and sanctions
This course is for advisers
with a working knowledge of the existing benefit system.
For details of our full training
programme, visit the CPAG in
Scotland website. If you have any further questions, please contact us by
phoning 0141 552 3303, or email pchalmers@cpagscotland.org.uk
.
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