Students and benefits - eligibility
Many advisers work with students in both further and higher education.
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Many advisers work with students in both further and higher education.
This course looks at how to use medical evidence effectively, particularly in Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance and Universal Credit Appeals.
Benefit may be overpaid for many reasons and recovery often leaves people in hardship.
If you need to get a universal credit or other DWP benefit decision changed, this course aims to gives you the essential knowledge to do it.
When a Scottish benefit is refused, an award is wrong or there is an overpayment, what steps can you take to put things right?
This essential two-morning course is aimed at non-benefit staff and volunteers working with people for whom benefits are an issue.
The work capability assessment (WCA) is used by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to assess whether someone is sick and is central to claims for employment and support allowance (old
Personal independence payment (PIP) was introduced on the same day as universal credit back in 2013 and PIP is now the main disability benefit for working age claimants.
Universal credit (UC) claimants often have difficulties getting their Housing Costs element included in their claim and having the right amount paid on time.
The requirement to have a right to reside for key benefits such as universal credit, remains a significant barrier preventing many EEA nationals accessing these benefits.
This one-day standard level online course looks at the universal credit (UC) rules that particularly affect ill or disabled people.
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.