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Introduction
The new packages
Free trial subscription
Advantages of online publications
About online subscriptions
Online memberships
Benefits for Students in Scotland – online version

Introduction

The Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Handbook, the Child Support Handbook and CPAG’s Housing Benefits & Council Tax Benefit Legislation (Findlay) are now available online as well as in book format. They are packaged together with relevant legislation, commissioners’ decisions and court cases. Prices start from just £35 + VAT before any bulk order discounts.

The new packages

Please follow the links for more details and prices of individual packages.

• CPAG’s Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Law Online (with legislation & caselaw)
• CPAG’s Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Online (basic version)
• CPAG’s Child Support Law Online
• CPAG’s Housing Benefit & Council Tax Benefit Law Online

Free trial subscription

Please sign up here for a free one-week trial of CPAG’s Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Law Online.

We don’t have trial versions of the other packages at present, but they work in a similar way so by looking at CPAG’s Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Law Online you will be able to evaluate the features and how easy it is to use.

Advantages of online subscriptions

• More frequent updating. The online text of the Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Handbooks updated on a rolling basis throughout the year. The associated legislation (where this is included in your package) is also updated and consolidated throughout the year. (However, the online texts of the Child Support Handbook and ‘Findlay’ are updated in line with the book at present.)
• Automatic links. All cross references within the text are hyperlinked, and where footnotes appear in the text, these are hyperlinked to the relevant legislation/caselaw/commissioners’ decisions (where this is included in your package).
• Quick searches and index. You can find information quickly and easily using the search function. Or you can use the alphabetical index of keywords, which works like a book index.
• You can have any number of ‘windows’ in use at once on your screen, for easy cross-reference /comparison of information.
• Accessibility. People with visual or other impairments will often find an online text easier to use. We are taking steps to ensure our online information is accessible to as many people as possible and we ask for feedback from users to further improve accessibility.

About online subscriptions

Subscriptions are for 12 calendar months and can start at any time of year.

We will contact subscribers by email with password details etc.

You can take out a subscription for any number of concurrent users within your organisation*. Whatever the number you subscribe for, this is the maximum number that will be able to access your online subscription at any one time. Users can log in from alternative locations where there is internet access (if working at home for instance).

Bulk discounts are available for groups of users within one organisation*: 10% discount for 10+ users and 20% off for 25+. For 50+ users contact Liz Dawson at CPAG for details (Ldawson@cpag.org.uk).

Benefit claimants can subscribe to CPAG’s Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Online at a reduced rate. Find out more.

* excluding national bodies and networks/membership organisations – if you want to subscribe on behalf of one of these, contact Ldawson@cpag.org.uk for details.

Online memberships

‘Rights Online’ and ‘Comprehensive Online’ members of CPAG get a year’s subscription to CPAG’s Welfare Benefits & Tax Credits Law Online as part of the membership package. Existing Rights and Comprehensive members will be invited to upgrade to online membership when they renew their subscriptions. Please see our membership page for more information about the packages, and to download a joining form for new members.

Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook – online version

This is a fully searchable version of the current edition of the Benefits for Students in Scotland Handbook and is available to use free of charge thanks to funding provided by the Scottish Government. Visit http://scottishhandbooks.cpag.org.uk.